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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813089603321

Autore

Fregoso Rosa Linda

Titolo

The bronze screen : Chicana and Chicano film culture / / Rosa Linda Fregoso

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1993

©1993

ISBN

0-8166-8458-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiii, 166 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

320.5/32/0945

791.43

791.43/652036872

Soggetti

Culture in motion pictures

Mexican Americans in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Photographs; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Bronze Screen: Looking at Us Looking; 1 Actos of ""Imaginative Re-discovery""; 2 Intertextuality and Cultural Identity in Zoot Suit (1981) and La Bamba (1987); 3 Humor as Subversive De-construction: Born in East L.A. (1987); 4 From Il(l)egal to Legal Subject: Border Construction and Re-construction; 5 Nepantla in Gendered Subjectivity; 6 Conclusion: Eastside Story Re-visited; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Explores Chicana and Chicano popular culture through contemporary representations in both Hollywood commercial and independent cinema.Rosa Linda Fregoso's The Bronze Screen opens the way for international debate on the new critical field of Chicano/a cinema. Fregoso provides an incisive articulation of the ways in which narrative codes in film can telescope complex versions of Mexican and American culture and history. The often violent impact of 'first' (U.S.) and 'third' (Mexico) world cultures and geographies is channeled through the very term Chicano/a as well as its cin