Badmen, bandits, and folk heroes
Subtitle: the ambivalence of Mexican American identity in literature and film
By: Juan José Alonzo.
Publisher: The University of Arizona Press; University of Arizona Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780816528684; 9780816528127
Subjects: Mexican Americans in motion pictures; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Mexican Americans in literature; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature; American literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: ambivalence and contingency in the representation of Mexican identity; title: The greaser in Stephen Crane's Mexican stories and D.W. Griffith's early Westerns; title: Greasers, bandits, and revolutionaries: the conflation of Mexican identity representation, 1910-1920; title: The Western's ambivalence and the Mexican Badman; title: Stereotype, idealism, and contingency in the revolutionary's depiction; title: Gregorio Cortez in the Chicano/a imaginary and American popular culture; title: Reformulating hybrid identities and re-inscribing history in contemporary Chicano/a literature and film; title: Epilogue: the return of the stereotypical repressed: why stereotypes still.