Description
Book SynopsisIn this book, Charles Ramírez Berg develops an innovative theory of stereotyping that accounts for the persistence of images of Latinos in U.S. popular culture
Trade Review"This book fills a void in bringing together Hollywood stereotyping and Latino self-representation in one study. With clarity and insight, Berg demonstrates why it is so important to take such an approach." Chon Noriega, author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1: Theory
- 1. Categorizing the Other: Stereotypes and Stereotyping
- 2. Stereotypes in Film
- 3. A Crash Course on Hollywood's Latino Imagery
- 4. Subversive Acts: Latino Actor Case Studies
- Part 2: The Hollywood Version: Latino Representation in Mainstream Cinema
- 5. Bordertown, the Assimilation Narrative, and the Chicano Social Problem Film
- 6. The Margin as Center: The Multicultural Dynamics of John Ford's Westerns
- 7. Immigrants, Aliens, and Extraterrestrials: Science Fiction's Alien "Other" as (among Other Things) New Hispanic Imagery
- Part 3: Latino Self-Representation
- Backstory: Chicano and Latino Filmmakers behind the Camera
- 8. El Genio del Género: Mexican American Border Documentaries and Postmodernism
- 9. Ethnic Ingenuity and Mainstream Cinema: Robert Rodríguez's Bedhead (1990) and El Mariachi (1993)
- 10. The Mariachi Aesthetic Goes to Hollywood: An Interview with Robert Rodríguez
- Conclusion: The End of Stereotypes?
- Notes
- Index
