The bronze screen : Chicana and Chicano film culture / Rosa Linda Fregoso.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fregoso, Rosa Linda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture in motion pictures.

Mexican Americans in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 166 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores Chicana and Chicano popular culture through contemporary representations in both Hollywood commercial and independent cinema.Rosa Linda Fregoso's The Bronze Screen opens the way for international debate on the new critical field of Chicano/a cinema. Fregoso provides an incisive articulation of the ways in which narrative codes in film can telescope complex versions of Mexican and American culture and history. The often violent impact of 'first' (U.S.) and 'third' (Mexico) world cultures and geographies is channeled through the very term Chicano/a as well as its cin

Contents:

Contents; List of Photographs; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Bronze Screen: Looking at Us Looking; 1 Actos of ""Imaginative Re-discovery""; 2 Intertextuality and Cultural Identity in Zoot Suit (1981) and La Bamba (1987); 3 Humor as Subversive De-construction: Born in East L.A. (1987); 4 From Il(l)egal to Legal Subject: Border Construction and Re-construction; 5 Nepantla in Gendered Subjectivity; 6 Conclusion: Eastside Story Re-visited; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8458-8

OCLC:

615004804