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This work takes readers on a critical tour of the chicano cinema that emerged during the chicano power movement of the late 1960s - when films were staged on the ground of anti-racism politics in the United States - and continues through more recent films of the 1980s and 1990s.

Table of Contents
Introduction - the bronze screen - looking at us looking; acts of imaginative rediscovery; intertextuality and cultural identity in "Zoot Suit" (1981) and "La Bamba" (1987); humour as subversive de-construction - "Born in East LA" (1987); from il(l)egal to legal subject - border construction and re-construction; nepantla in gendered subjectivity; conclusion - eastside story revisited.

Bronze Screen Chicana and Chicano Film Culture

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/10/1993
      ISBN13: 9780816621361, 978-0816621361
      ISBN10: 0816621365

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This work takes readers on a critical tour of the chicano cinema that emerged during the chicano power movement of the late 1960s - when films were staged on the ground of anti-racism politics in the United States - and continues through more recent films of the 1980s and 1990s.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction - the bronze screen - looking at us looking; acts of imaginative rediscovery; intertextuality and cultural identity in "Zoot Suit" (1981) and "La Bamba" (1987); humour as subversive de-construction - "Born in East LA" (1987); from il(l)egal to legal subject - border construction and re-construction; nepantla in gendered subjectivity; conclusion - eastside story revisited.

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