The Ethnic Eye is an invaluable contribution to the burgeoning field of multicultural studies. Rather than focusing on Hollywood’s representation of Latinos, the editors foreground Latino/a self-representation, bringing together probing essays about a wide range of Latino/a media practices. Through critical mappings and close readings of films and videos, this important volume engages the multiple voices of a complex and variegated community.

These essays provide a substantial wealth of information about the fraught realities involved in a non-mainstream culture’s efforts at self-representation through film, video, and other related media. Explicitly or implicitly, the authors’ analyses contribute toward a problematization of the specific marker ‘Latino,’ a problematization that should offer suggestive points of comparison for all those exploring the ambiguities of nationalities, ethnicities, and cultural identities in multiple other contexts.

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.

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.