Introduction -- Part 1: Theory -- Categorizing the other: stereotypes and stereotyping -- Stereotypes in film -- A crash course on Hollywood's Latino imagery -- Subversive Acts: Latino actor case studies -- Part 2: The Hollywood Version -- Latino representation in mainstream cinema -- Bordertown, the assimilation narrative, and the Chicano social problem film -- The margin as center: the multicultural dynamics of John Ford's Westerns -- Immigrants, aliens, and extraterrestrials: science fiction's alien "other" as (among other things) new Hispanic imagery -- Part 3: Latino Self-Representation -- Backstory: Chicano and Latino filmmakers behind the camera -- El Genio del Genero: Mexican American Borderland documentaries and postmodernism -- Ethnic ingenuity and mainstream cinema: Robert Rodríguez's Bedhead (1990) and El Mariachi (1993) -- The Mariachi aesthetic goes to Hollywood: an interview with Robert Rodríguez -- Conclusion: the end of stereotypes?
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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
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Latino images in film.
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Hispanic American motion picture actors and actresses, Biography
Hispanic Americans in motion pictures
Actrices de cinéma américaines d'origine latino-américaine, Biography