Hidden Chicano Cinema - Film Dramas in the Borderlands

Informationen zum Autor A. GABRIEL MELÉNDEZ is a professor and chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of numerous books, including So All Is Not Lost: The Poetics of Print in Nuevomexicano Communities, 1836–1958. Klappentext Examines how New Mexico! situated within the boundaries of the United States! became a stand-in for the exotic non-western world that tourists! artists! scientists! and others sought to possess at the dawn of early filmmaking! a disposition stretching from the silent era to today as filmmakers screen their fantasies of what they wished the Southwest Borderlands to be. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Borderlands Cinema and the Proxemics of Hidden and Manifest Film Encounters 2. Ill Will Hunting (Penitentes) 3. A Life Halfway around the World 4. Lives and Faces Plying through Exotica 5. Red Sky at Morning, a Borderlands Interlude 6. The King Tiger Awakens the Sleeping Giant of the Southwest 7. Filming Bernalillo: Post-Civil Rights Chicano Film Subjects 8. Toward a New Proxemics: Historical, Mythopoetic, and Autoethnographic Works Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: A. Gabriel Melaendez, A. Gabriel Melendez, A Gabriel Meléndez, A. Gabriel Meléndez
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.08.2013
• EAN: 9780813561066
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-6106-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultu; Latinidad: Transnational Cultu
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet