| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
248 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-238) and index. |
| Contents |
A decidedly odd tale of what happened when Hollywood killed Vaudeville, postcards boomed, and the United States invaded Mexico -- Hallucinations of Miscegenation and murder: dancing along the Mestiza/o borders of proto-Chicana/o cinema with Orson Welles's Touch of Evil -- When electrolysis proxies for the existential : a somewhat sordid meditation on what might occur if Frantz Fanon, Rosario Castellanos, Jacques Derrida, Gayatri Spivak, and Sandra Cisneros asked Rita Hayworth her name at the Tex[t]-Mex beauty parlor -- Autopsy of a rat : sundry parables of Warner Brothers Studios, Jewish American Animators, Speedy Gonzales, Freddy Lopez, and other Chicano/Latino marionettes prancing about our first world visual emporium ; Parable cameos by Jacques Derrida and, a dirty joke -- Lupe Velez regurgitated; or, Jesus's Kleenex : cautionary, Indigestion-inspiring ruminations on "Mexicans" in "American" toilets -- XicanOsmosis: Frida Kahlo and Mexico in the eyes of Gilbert Hernandez -- Conclusion(with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche):"have i been understood? XicanOsmosis versus the Tex[t]-Mex" |
| Subject |
Mexican Americans in motion pictures.
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Mexican Americans in popular culture.
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| ISBN |
0292714564 |
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9780292714564 |
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0292714572 : $22.95 |
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9780292714571 |
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