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Contemporary Hollywood's Negative Hispanic Image An Interpretive Filmography, 1956-1993
Alfred Charles Richard
Book Code: GR8841
ISBN: 0-313-28841-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28841-8
680 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 7/30/1994
List Price: $103.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Subjects:
Series Title: Bibliographies and Indexes in the Performing Arts
Series Number: 16
Reviews:
  • 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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