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The Hispanic image in Hollywood : a postcolonial approach
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- Creator
- Jorge J. Barrueto
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Peter Lang, [2014]
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1433117576, 9781453910702, 9781433117572
- OCLC
- ocn827008088, ocn870950133
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) and index.
- Foreword -- Introduction -- The making of Tony Montana. Phenotypes, violence and fetishism -- Pathology, immigration and social paranoia -- The spectacle of Hispanic gangsters -- Hotel maid in Manhattan. Exoticism, temptation and fear of miscegenation -- The Tarzan syndrome and the triple bind -- Melodrama, patriarchy and the savage mind -- Latin American geography in the movies. Antipodal lands and modern hagiographies -- Geography as history, science and geographic determinism -- Maps, missions and gold -- Cinematic humor and difference. Dictatorships, sex and political corruption -- Banana republics and de-legitimating political change -- The mastery of the North -- Contestation of the colonial past. Marianism, guilt and traditions -- Education, economics and integration: the tools of freedom