Hispanic Image in Hollywood : A Postcolonial Approach.
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Hispanic Image in Hollywood : A Postcolonial Approach.
Yazar:
Barrueto, Jorge J.
ISBN:
9781453910702
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (224 pages)
Seri:
Framing Film ; v.14
Framing Film
İçerik:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments ix -- Introduction 1 -- Chapter One: The Making of Tony Montana 17 -- Phenotypes, Violence and Fetishism 19 -- Pathology, Immigration and Paranoia 30 -- The Spectacle of Hispanic Gangsters 40 -- Chapter Two: Hotel Maid in Manhattan 49 -- Exoticism, Temptation and Miscegenation 52 -- The Tarzan Syndrome and the Triple Bind 61 -- Melodrama, Patriarchy and the Savage Mind 69 -- Chapter Three: Latin American Geography in the Movies 81 -- Antipodal Lands and Modern Hagiographies 82 -- Geography as History: Science and Geographic Determinism 90 -- Maps, Missions and Gold 102 -- Chapter Four: Cinematic Humor and Difference 121 -- Dictatorships, Sex and Political Corruption 123 -- Banana Republics and De-legitimating Political Change 133 -- The Mastery of the North 139 -- Chapter Five: Contestation of the Colonial Past 151 -- Marianism, Guilt and Traditions 155 -- Education, Economics and Integration: The Tools of Freedom 162 -- Notes 171 -- Bibliography 189 -- Index 203.
Özet:
The Hispanic Image in Hollywood: A Postcolonial Approach offers an in-depth analysis of how Hispanics are represented in American cinema. Film production is a reflection of American historical processes that have defined Hispanics and American mainstream identity as oppositional forces in the domestic political establishment. Hispanic difference, as depicted in film, is understood as the by-product of Western philosophy, Western science, territorial expansion, colonialism and American nation building, wherein Hispanics have been identified as the antithetical, ubiquitous Other. More precisely, specific Hollywood films not only mirror American history but also a variety of political discourses that have defined Hispanic identity. Thematic categories of American history used to construct Hispanics reflect, in many ways, a deep-rooted, Eurocentric, colonial worldview. As the research of this book clearly shows, film depictions of Hispanics have created negative visual taxonomies based on gender, race, and class.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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