Chicanos and Film: Representation and Resistance

Book Overview

To date, film scholarship has not considered the issue of Chicano and Latino representation and participation in the American film industry. Genre criticism in particular has been all but blind to the presence of Chicanos in genres that have, at times, been constructed around a Chicano or Chicana "other" - Westerns, social problem films, and the more recent urban violence film. Additionally, Chicano studies draw upon the scholarship of Chicano politics, narrative and visual art, and cultural studies. This scholarship has often been divided between historical/political accounts of public events and cultural/literary interpretations of art. In "Chicanos and Film" these seemingly disparate elements come together in an illustration of how film can be used as primary evidence about social history, and how artifacts of expressive culture draw their determinate shape from social and political realities. The contributors variously examine Chicano representation in both Hollywood and Mexican cinema, resistance within studio production and the press, and counter-cinema. Noriega has gathered the work of scholars who have been instrumental in the development of a critical discourse on the subject, placing their scholarship within a conceptual framework, thereby offering new and useful ways of thinking about cinema as a social actor. Chon A. Noriega is assistant professor in the department of American studies at the University of New Mexico, and the author of several articles on Chicano cinema. He is curator of film programs, including the Whitney Museum, and a media production consultant on issues of curriculum development and distribution. Noriega is guest editor of "Jumpcut" and "Spectator".

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816622183
• ISBN13: 9780816622184
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Chon Noriega's presence

Although I have not read this book yet, It must be worth reading. I have seen Chon Noriega in at least 2 videos of Latin American people in film and he is fantastic! He projects a very professional, truthfull and honest take on historical Latino experiences and events. I cannot wait to buy this book! and Thank You Chon for being such a positive influence to millions! We need you here in Texas!

A must read for anyone interested in Chicano or Ethnic films

Chon Noriega, Editor of Chicanos in Film, dares to create a book that reveals the culture, philosophy, corazon, affirmation, sangre, and issues of contemporary Chicano Films. Pues, what are you waiting for? Buy it and learn how Richard "Cheech" Marin threw stereotypes on their head and how Frances Salome Espana creates films on her own terms.