From bananas to buttocks [[electronic resource] ] : the Latina body in popular film and culture / / edited by Myra Mendible

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452120503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Austin, : University of Texas Press, c2007
• ISBN: 0-292-79501-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MendibleMyra <1954->
• Disciplina: 305.48/868073009045
• Soggetti: Hispanic American women - Public opinion; Hispanic American women - Ethnic identity; Hispanic American women in mass media; Popular culture - United States; Human body - Social aspects - United States; Femininity - United States; Stereotypes (Social psychology) - United States; Public opinion - United States; Electronic books.; United States Ethnic relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Introduction: Embodying Latinidad: An Overview (Myra Mendible)""; ""Section One: Case Studies: Silent and Classic Film Era""; ""Chapter 1: Film Viewing in Latino Communities, 1896-1934: Puerto Rico as Microcosm (Clara E. Rodríguez)""; ""Chapter 2: Lupe Vélez: Queen of the B's (Rosa Linda Fregoso)""; ""Chapter 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""; ""Chapter 4: Celia's Shoes (Frances Negrón-Muntaner)""""Chapter 5: Salma Hayek's Frida: Transnational Latina Bodies in Popular Culture (Isabel Molina Guzmán)""; ""Chapter 6: Is Penélope to J.Lo as Culture Is to Nature?: Eurocentric Approaches to "Latin" Beauties (Angharad Valdivia)""; ""Chapter 7: Jennifer Lopez: The New Wave of Border ; Crossing (Tara Lockhart)""; ""Chapter 8: "There's My Territory": Shakira Crossing Over (Cynthia Fuchs)""; ""Chapter 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""""Chapter 10: On the Semiotics of Lorena Bobbitt (Charla Ogaz)""; ""Chapter 11: Disorderly Bodies and Discourses of Latinidad in the Elián González Story (Isabel Molina Guzmán)""; ""Chapter 12: The Body in Question: The Latina Detective in the Lupe Solano Mystery Series (Ana Patricia Rodríguez)""; ""Chapter 13: La Princesa Plástica: Hegemonic and Oppositional Representations of Latinidad in Hispanic Barbie (Karen Goldman)""; ""Chapter 14: Chusmas, Chismes, y Escándalos: Latinas Talk Back to El Show de Cristina and Laura en América (Viviana Rojas)""""Contributors""; ""Index""