Latina/o communication studies today
By: Angharad N. Valdivia, editor.
Contributors: Valdivia, Angharad N.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780820486284; 9780820486321
Subjects: Hispanic American mass media; Hispanic Americans and mass media
Other titles: Latina communication studies today; Latino communication studies today
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The production of Latinidad; title: Is my butt your island? the myth of discovery and contemporary Latina/o communication studies / Angharad N. Valdivia; title: When Dolores del Rio became Latina : Latina/o stardom in Hollywood's transition to sound / Mary Beltrán; title: The importance of Spanish-language and Latino media / Mari Castañeda; title: Performance and the self; title: Performing the responsible sponsor : everything you never wanted to know about immigration post-9/11 / Bernadette Marie Calafell; title: Hybrid performativity, south and north of the border : entre la teoría y la materialidad de hibridación / Shane T. Moreman; title: Contextually representing the heterogeneity; title: Policing the Latina/o other : Latinidad in prime-time news coverage of the Elián González story / Isabel Molina Guzmán; title: Real women and their curves : letters to the editor and a magazine's celebration of the "Latina body" / Katynka Z. Martínez; title: A morning dose of Latino masculinity : U.S.-Spanish-language radio and the politics of gender / Dolores Inés Casillas; title: Latina women as cultural readers; title: Media practices and gendered identity among transnational Latina teens / Lucila Vargas; title: Watching over the border : a case study of the Mexico-U.S. television and youth audience / David González Hernández; title: Survival aesthetics : U.S. Latinas and the negotiation of popular media / María Elena Cepeda; title: Mexican (American) women talk back : audience responses to Latinidad in U.S. advertising / Jillian M. Báez.