Scene from the Movie GIANT

Name: Scene from the Movie GIANT
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ISBN: 9781880684122

ISBN-10: 1880684128

ISBN-13: 9781880684122

Edition: 1993

Authors: Tino Villanueva

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A 14 year-old boy sits in the darkness of the Holiday Theater watching a scene of anti-Mexican racism in a Rock Hudson / Elizabeth Taylore movie. This scene, this memory, is at the heart ofScene from the Movie GIANT,a remarkable book-length poem in five parts by Tino Villanueva. Villanueva excavates the meaning of this scene and in doing so grapples with urgent questions of cultural identity.

Book details

List price: $10.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Curbstone Press
Publication date: 7/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 55
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.198



Scene from the Movie Giant


The 8:00 O'Clock Movie


The Benedicts (Up-Close)


The Serving of Water


Claiming the Air


Text for a Vaquero: Flashback


The Existence of Sarge


On the Subject of Staying Whole


Stop-Action: Impression


Fallingrief of Unpleasure


Without a Prayer at the Holiday Theater


Fight Scene Beginning


Fight Scene, Part II


Fight Scene: Final Frames


Journey Home


Observer and Observed


Dusk with Dreaming


That Autumn


Fade-Out-Fade-In


The Slow Weight of Time


The Telling


Notes


About the author