Latino Images in Film
Subtitle: Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance (Texas Film and Media Studies Series)
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: August 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780292709065
Subjects: Cultural studies; Film theory & criticism; Hispanic American Sociology; Specific Groups In Film; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; USA; Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Film / General; Ethnic Studies - General; Biography; Hispanic American motion pictu; Hispanic American motion picture actors and actresses; Hispanic Americans in motion p; Hispanic Americans in motion pictures
Description: The bandido, the harlot, the male buffoon, the female clown, the Latin lover, and the dark lady - these have been the images of Latinos in US cinema for more than a century. This volume develops a theory of stereotyping that accounts for the persistence of such images in U.S. popular culture.