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Chicano Images - Refiguring Ethnicity in Mainstream Film (Paperback)
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Chicano Images - Refiguring Ethnicity in Mainstream Film (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
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Providing textual analysis of 12 feature films written and directed
by filmmakers who explore aspects of the Chicano cultural movement,
this book discusses films including Cheech and Chong's Still
Smokin' (1983), El Norte (1985), and Break of Dawn (1988). The text
analyzes the portrayal of Chicano, or Mexican American, identity in
films by chicanos. Part historiography, part film analysis, part
ethnography, this book offers a compelling story of how Chicanos
challenge, subvert and create their own popular portrayals of
Chicanismo. Historical stereotypical images in Hollywood films are
discussed alongside contemporary images portrayed by Hollywood
studios and independent Chicano filmmakers. The author examines the
way in which newer films "construct new representations of Chicano
culture" and present a greater variety of images of Chicanos for
mainstream audiences. Originally published in 1996, this
authoritative volume provides a full history of the Chicano
cultural movement beginning in the 1960s as well as information on
the development of Mexican American film production.
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