Chicano Cinema: Electronic Books

The bandido, the harlot, the male buffoon, the female clown, the Latin lover, and the dark lady—these have been the defining, and demeaning, images of Latinos in U.S. cinema for more than a century. In this book, Charles Ramírez Berg develops an innovative theory of stereotyping that accounts for the persistence of such images in U.S. popular culture.

In-depth analysis of how Hispanics are represented in American cinema. Film production is a reflection of American historical processes that have defined Hispanics and American mainstream identity as oppositional forces in the domestic political establishment.

Documenting the linguistic and cultural diversity of Latino literary work focusing on various literary genres, and cinema, related to Latinos.

Aldama investigates the ways in which race and gay/lesbian sexuality intersect and operate in Chicano/a literature and film

Essays discuss discuss racialized, subaltern, feminist, and diasporic identities and the aesthetic politics of hybrid and mestiza/o cultural productions.

Mexican Americans in motion pictures.
Mexican Americans on television.

Hispanic Americans -- Press coverage -- United States.
Hispanic Americans on television.

Hispanic Americans in the motion picture industry.
Hispanic American motion picture actors and actresses.

A brief glance at Hispanics in Hollywood films yesterday, today and tomorrow

Hispanic Americans in motion pictures.
Hispanic American motion picture actors and actresses.