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The Ethnic Eye Latino Media Arts Chon A. Noriega and Ana M. López, editors |
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The first in-depth treatment of Latino film and video. This groundbreaking volume is the first to examine the range of Latino media arts, from independent feature production to documentary to experimental video. The essays explore the work of Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, and Latino film and video artists and address avant-garde practices, queer media, and performance art as well as more conventional film and video representations. Contributors to The Ethnic Eye provide close readings of a wide variety of films and videos, including Stand and Deliver, American Me, Bedhead, El Mariachi, Carmelita Tropicana, Improper Conduct, Welcome to America's Finest Tourist Plantation, Border Brujo, Mérida Proscrita, and Spitfire. The essays are unified by a concern with the creation of a common ground for Latino media arts, one that is pan-ethnic rather than narrowly transcribed by race, ethnicity, or national heritage. The volume also provides the first in-depth treatment of such artists as Robert Rodriquez, Ela Troyano, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, and Frances Salomé España. Eclectic in the range of media artists and works considered, The Ethnic Eye is unique in its inclusion of site-specific public art, as well as performance-based works. "Indeed, this collection of essays is impressive in not only the quality of scholarship that the various authors demonstrate, which is consistently high, but also in the scope of material treated." —Virginia Quarterly Review "The Ethnic Eye presents essays on Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, and Latino gay and lesbian film and media. The contributors reflect a similar diversity and represent a new generation of media scholars, film professionals, and artisits. The Ethnic Eye is a significant contribution to the analyses of subjectivity-specific media production. The text asserts the importance of Latino media artists and the emergence of new critical voices. Along with a useful list of the distributors of Latino media, Noriega and López have compiled an excellent sampling of work that helps readers understand the paradoxical locations of Latino media artists." —Journal of Popular Film and Television Contributors: Marcos Becquer, Charles Ramírez Berg, C. Ondine Chavoya, Marvin D'Lugo, Claire F. Fox, Ilene S. Goldman, Carmen Huaco-Nuzum, Lillian Jiménez, Alisa Lebow, Scott MacDonald, José Esteban Muñoz, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Kathleen Newman, Christopher Ortiz. Chon A. Noriega is associate professor of critical studies in the Department of Film and Television at UCLA. His books include Chicanos and Film (1992), Shot in America (2000), and Visible Nations (2000). Ana M. López is associate professor of communication at Tulane University, and coeditor of Mediating Two Worlds: Cinematic Encounters in the Americas (1993). 320 pages | 27 illustrations | 1996 |
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$22.50 Paper