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  • Chicano-Chicana Americana

    Pop Culture Pluralism Starring Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, and Lupe Ontiveros

    by Anthony Macías ...
    Series series Latinx Pop Culture
    Chicano-Chicana Americana is a cultural history of Mexican Americans in film, television, and theater. Through biographical sketches of performers such as Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, and Lupe Ontiveros, this work asserts Mexican Americans’ proper place in the national narratives of our collective imaginary. Conveying a multicentered, polycultural America, this book shows us ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Mexican American Mojo

    Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968

    by Anthony Macías, Ronald Radano, Josh Kun ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    Stretching from the years during the Second World War when young couples jitterbugged across the dance floor at the Zenda Ballroom, through the early 1950s when honking tenor saxophones could be heard at the Angelus Hall, to the Spanish-language cosmopolitanism of the late 1950s and 1960s, Mexican American Mojo is a lively account of Mexican American urban culture in wartime and postwar Los ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Chicano Popular Culture, Second Edition

    Que Hable el Pueblo

    by Charles M. Tatum ...
    Series series The Mexican American Experience
    Chicano Popular Culture, Second Edition provides a fascinating, timely, and accessible introduction to Chicano cultural expression and representation. New sections discuss music, with an emphasis on hip-hop and rap; cinema and filmmakers; media, including the contributions of Jorge Ramos and María Hinojosa; and celebrations and other popular traditions, including quinceañeras, cincuentañeras, and ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • New Queer Cinema

    The Director's Cut

    by B. Ruby Rich ...
    B. Ruby Rich designated a brand new genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC), in her groundbreaking article in the Village Voice in 1992. This movement in film and video was intensely political and aesthetically innovative, made possible by the debut of the camcorder, and driven initially by outrage over the unchecked spread of AIDS. The genre has grown to include an entire generation of queer artists, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Latino Images in Film

    Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance

    by Charles Ramírez Berg ...
    Series series Texas Film and Media Studies Series
    The bandido, the harlot, the male buffoon, the female clown, the Latin lover, and the dark lady—these have been the defining, and demeaning, images of Latinos in U.S. cinema for more than a century. In this book, Charles Ramírez Berg develops an innovative theory of stereotyping that accounts for the persistence of such images in U.S. popular culture. He also explores how Latino actors and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The three amigos

    The transnational filmmaking of Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón

    by Deborah Shaw ...
    Series series Spanish and Latin-American Filmmakers
    This is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the three best known Mexican born directors, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón.Deborah Shaw examines the career trajectories of the directors and presents a detailed analysis of their most significant films with a focus on both the texts and the production contexts in which they were made. These ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Living in Spanglish

    The Search for Latino Identity in America

    by Ed Morales ...
    Chicano. Cubano. Pachuco. Nuyorican. Puerto Rican. Boricua. Quisqueya. Tejano.To be Latino in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has meant to fierce identification with roots, with forbears, with the language, art and food your people came here with. America is a patchwork of Hispanic sensibilities-from Puerto Rican nationalists in New York to more newly arrived Mexicans ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Hello, Hello Brazil

    Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil

    by Bryan McCann ...
    “Hello, hello Brazil” was the standard greeting Brazilian radio announcers of the 1930s used to welcome their audience into an expanding cultural marketplace. New genres like samba and repackaged older ones like choro served as the currency in this marketplace, minted in the capital in Rio de Janeiro and circulated nationally by the burgeoning recording and broadcasting industries. Bryan McCann ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics

    by Frederick Luis Aldama, Javier Hernandez ...
    Series series Latinx Pop Culture
    Winner of the 2018 Eisner Award Winner for Best Scholarly/Academic WorkWhether good or evil, beautiful or ugly, smart or downright silly, able-bodied or differently abled, gay or straight, male or female, young or old, Latinx superheroes in mainstream comic book stories are few and far between. It is as if finding the Latinx presence in the DC and Marvel worlds requires activation of superheroic ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Translocas

    The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance

    by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes ...
    Series series Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance
    Translocas focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx “locas” (effeminate men, drag queens, transgender performers, and unruly women) and the various forms of violence to which queer individuals in Puerto ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Latin Hitchcock

    How Almodóvar, Amenábar, De la Iglesia, Del Toro, and Campanella Became Notorious

    by Dona Kercher ...
    This study explores how five major directors—Pedro Almodóvar, Alejandro Amenábar, Alex de la Iglesia, Guillermo del Toro, and Juan José Campanella—modeled their early careers on Hitchcock and his film aesthetics. In shadowing Hitchcock, their works embraced the global aspirations his movies epitomize. Each section of the book begins with an extensive study, based on newspaper accounts, of the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Benicio Del Toro - Celebrity Biographies

    Biographies of Famous People, #23

    by Matt Green ...
    Series Book 23 - Biographies of Famous People
    Ever Wondered how Benicio Del Toro rose to stardom?The three most coveted awards in the American film industry are The Oscars, the Golden Globes, and the Screen Actors' Guild Awards.In order for an actor to win all three in one year, the stars themselves must align. The actor must give a performance that is both stunningly original and brilliantly executed.There have only been a handful of actors ... Read more

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