Contents -- Introduction: Embodying Latinidad: An Overview (Myra Mendible) -- Section One: Case Studies: Silent and Classic Film Era -- Chapter 1: Film Viewing in Latino Communities, 1896-1934: Puerto Rico as Microcosm (Clara E. Rodríguez) -- Chapter 2: Lupe Vélez: Queen of the B's (Rosa Linda Fregoso) -- Chapter 3: Lupe Vélez Regurgitated: Cautionary, Indigestion-Causing Ruminations on "Mexicans" in "American" Toilets Perpetrated While Covetously Screening "Veronica" (William A. Nericcio) -- Section Two: Performing Bodies: Contemporary Film and Music Media -- Chapter 4: Celia's Shoes (Frances Negrón-Muntaner) -- Chapter 5: Salma Hayek's Frida: Transnational Latina Bodies in Popular Culture (Isabel Molina Guzmán) -- Chapter 6: Is Penélope to J.Lo as Culture Is to Nature?: Eurocentric Approaches to "Latin" Beauties (Angharad Valdivia) -- Chapter 7: Jennifer Lopez: The New Wave of Border Crossing (Tara Lockhart) -- Chapter 8: "There's My Territory": Shakira Crossing Over (Cynthia Fuchs) -- Chapter 9: "Hey, Killer": The Construction of a Macho Latina, or the Perils and Enticements of Girlfight (Karen R. Tolchin) -- Section Three: Sensational Bodies: Discourses of Latina Femininity -- Chapter 10: On the Semiotics of Lorena Bobbitt (Charla Ogaz) -- Chapter 11: Disorderly Bodies and Discourses of Latinidad in the Elián González Story (Isabel Molina Guzmán) -- Chapter 12: The Body in Question: The Latina Detective in the Lupe Solano Mystery Series (Ana Patricia Rodríguez) -- Chapter 13: La Princesa Plástica: Hegemonic and Oppositional Representations of Latinidad in Hispanic Barbie (Karen Goldman) -- Chapter 14: Chusmas, Chismes, y Escándalos: Latinas Talk Back to El Show de Cristina and Laura en América (Viviana Rojas) -- Contributors -- Index.