Bronze Screen Chicana and Chicano Film Culture

Name: Bronze Screen Chicana and Chicano Film Culture
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ISBN: 9780816621361

ISBN-10: 0816621365

ISBN-13: 9780816621361

Edition: 1993

Authors: Rosa-Linda Fregoso

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Explores Chicana and Chicano popular culture through contemporary representations in both Hollywood commercial and independent cinema.Rosa Linda FregosoOCOs" 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 OCyfirstOCO (U.S.) and OCythirdOCO (Mexico) world cultures and geographies is channeled through the very term Chicano/a as well as its cinematic representation. FregosoOCOs masterful critique brings out with great clarity the irony, paradox, and…

Book details

List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 10/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



List of Photographs


Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Bronze Screen: Looking at Us Looking



Actos of "Imaginative Re-discovery"



Intertextuality and Cultural Identity in Zoot Suit (1981) and La Bamba (1987)



Humor as Subversive De-construction: Born in East L.A. (1987)



From Il(l)egal to Legal Subject: Border Construction and Re-construction



Nepantla in Gendered Subjectivity



Conclusion: Eastside Story Re-visited


Notes


Index