Contemporary Hollywood's Negative Hispanic Image

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Contemporary Hollywood's Negative Hispanic Image An Interpretive Filmography, 1956-1993

By Alfred Charles Richard, Jr.

ISBN: 0-313-28841-0

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28841-8

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680 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 7/30/1994

List Price: $103.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

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Series Title: Bibliographies and Indexes in the Performing Arts

Series Number: 16

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This highly specialized filmography will be a godsend to anyone investigating the image of Hispanics in films during the past four decades.
—Wilson Library Bulletin

Description: An annotated filmography of more than 3,000 entries each focusing on the film's Hispanic content, connection, or characters. Four separate indexes, more than 6,000 cross references, and as many film reviews make this work an invaluable reference tool for students, scholars, and individuals interested in studying silver screen stereotyping. This work completes Richard's three-volume documentation of how the domestic and international film industry contributed to stereotyping America's Hispanic community by detailing the contemporary return of the despicable Hispanic character. Employing the broadest conceptual framework to include any individual of Spanish ancestry, this volume outlines how the film industry has homogenized the Latin, the Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and anyone from Mexico, Central/South America or the Caribbean nations into a despicable Spic (an ethnic enemy) whose negative traits/character have been conditioned by his national origins. The return of the negative image is due to a variety of reasons, and one thing is for certain--it has been profitable for filmmakers. There is no other such reference work presently in print that represents the definitive collection of films with Hispanic themes and connections in any language.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
List of Abbreviations
Feature Film Lists: 1956-1993
Feature Film Titles Index
Actors and Actresses Index
Countries and Place Names Index
Subject Index

LC Card Number: 94-10862

LCC Class: PN1995

Dewey Class: 791.43


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