Description
Book SynopsisLatinas in Popular Culture explores the way Latina representations have exploded onto mainstream popular culture--and into American consciousness.
Trade Review“It is destined to quickly become a landmark text and valuable archival resource for all scholars of media and popular culture, regardless of specialization, but will be of particular interest to those with interests in Latina/o/x Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Girl Studies, and Disney Studies.” - Global Media Journal –German Edition, Vol. 11 No. 2 (2021): Autumn/Winter 2021
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
1 Continuities and Ruptures: The Gender of Latinidad 1
2 Spitfire Transition Tales: The Production of a Career 25
3 An Unambivalent Structure of Ambivalence: Disney’s Production of Latina Princesses 73
4 Latina/o Media Utopias: The Ideal Place or No Place 117
References 163
Index 183
