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The first extensive study of the representation of the Latina body in U.S. popular culture, from “Latin bombshell” Carmen Miranda in the 1940s to Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek today.

Table of Contents
  • Introduction: Embodying "Latinidad": An Overview (Myra Mendible)
  • Section One. Case Studies: Silent and Classic Film Era
    • 1. Film Viewing in Latino Communities, 1896-1934: Puerto Rico as Microcosm (Clara E. Rodríguez)
    • 2. Lupe Vélez: Queen of the B's (Rosa Linda Fregoso)
    • 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
    • 4. Celia's Shoes (Frances Negrón-Muntaner)
    • 5. Salma Hayek's Frida: Transnational Latina Bodies in Popular Culture (Isabel Molina Guzmán)
    • 6. Is Penelope to J.Lo as Culture Is to Nature? Eurocentric Approaches to "Latin" Beauties (Angharad Valdivia)
    • 7. Jennifer Lopez: The New Wave of Border Crossing (Tara Lockhart)
    • 8. "There's My Territory": Shakira Crossing Over (Cynthia Fuchs)
    • 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
    • 10. On the Semiotics of Lorena Bobbitt (Charla Ogaz)
    • 11. Disorderly Bodies and Discourses of Latinidad in the Elián González Story (Isabel Molina Guzmán)
    • 12. The Body in Question: The Latina Detective in the Lupe Solano Mystery Series (Ana Patricia Rodríguez)
    • 13. La Princesa Plástica: Hegemonic and Oppositional Representations of Latinidad in Hispanic Barbie (Karen Goldman)
    • 14. Chusmas, Chismes, y Escándalos: Latinas Talk Back to El Show de Cristina and Laura en América (Viviana Rojas)
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 01/09/2007
      ISBN13: 9780292714939, 978-0292714939
      ISBN10: 0292714939
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The first extensive study of the representation of the Latina body in U.S. popular culture, from “Latin bombshell” Carmen Miranda in the 1940s to Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek today.

      Table of Contents
      • Introduction: Embodying "Latinidad": An Overview (Myra Mendible)
      • Section One. Case Studies: Silent and Classic Film Era
        • 1. Film Viewing in Latino Communities, 1896-1934: Puerto Rico as Microcosm (Clara E. Rodríguez)
        • 2. Lupe Vélez: Queen of the B's (Rosa Linda Fregoso)
        • 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
        • 4. Celia's Shoes (Frances Negrón-Muntaner)
        • 5. Salma Hayek's Frida: Transnational Latina Bodies in Popular Culture (Isabel Molina Guzmán)
        • 6. Is Penelope to J.Lo as Culture Is to Nature? Eurocentric Approaches to "Latin" Beauties (Angharad Valdivia)
        • 7. Jennifer Lopez: The New Wave of Border Crossing (Tara Lockhart)
        • 8. "There's My Territory": Shakira Crossing Over (Cynthia Fuchs)
        • 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
        • 10. On the Semiotics of Lorena Bobbitt (Charla Ogaz)
        • 11. Disorderly Bodies and Discourses of Latinidad in the Elián González Story (Isabel Molina Guzmán)
        • 12. The Body in Question: The Latina Detective in the Lupe Solano Mystery Series (Ana Patricia Rodríguez)
        • 13. La Princesa Plástica: Hegemonic and Oppositional Representations of Latinidad in Hispanic Barbie (Karen Goldman)
        • 14. Chusmas, Chismes, y Escándalos: Latinas Talk Back to El Show de Cristina and Laura en América (Viviana Rojas)
      • Notes on Contributors
      • Index

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