The Ethnic Eye: Latino Media Arts

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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. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Critical Mappings Imagined Borders: Locating Chicano Cinema in America/América Moving from the Margin to the Center: Puerto Rican Cinema in New York Greater Cuba Drama Queens: Latino Gay and Lesbian Independent Film/Video Close Readings Crossing Invisible Borders: Ramón Menéndez's Stand and Deliver (1987) Reterritorialization in Recent Chicano Cinema: Edward James Olmos's American Me (1992) Ethnic Ingenuity and Mainstream Cinema: Robert Rodríguez's Bedhead (1990) and El Mariachi (1993) Flaming Latinas: Ela Troyano's Carmelita Tropicana: Your Kunst Is Your Waffen (1993) Docudrag, or "Realness" as a Documentary Strategy: Felix Rodriguez's One Moment in Time (1992) From Exile to Ethnicity: Nestor Almendros and Orlando Jiménez-Leal's Improper Conduct (1984) Media Destructionism: The Digital/Laser/Videos of Raphael Montañez Ortiz Collaborative Public Art and Multimedia Installation: David Avalos, Louis Hock, and Elizabeth Sisco's Welcome to America's Finest Tourist Plantation (1988) Mass Media, Site Specificity, and the U.S.-Mexico Border: Guillermo Gómez-Peña's Border Brujo (1988, 1990) The Forbidden Kiss: Raúl Ferrera-Balanquet and Enrique Novelo-Cascante's Mérida Proscrita (1990) (Re)constructing Chicana, Mestiza Representation: Frances Salomé España's Spitfire (1991) Distributors Contributors Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z