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Images of the Mexican American in fiction and film /

Main Author: Pettit, Arthur G.
Other Authors: Showalter, Dennis E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©1980.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
American fiction > History and criticism.
Mexican Americans in literature.
Motion pictures > History. > United States
Mexican Americans in motion pictures.
Popular culture > United States.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
American fiction.
Motion pictures.
Filmkunst.
Letterkunde.
Mexicaanse Amerikanen.
United States.
Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=18201
Table of Contents:
  • Antecedents of the images
  • Conquest
  • Gringo versus greaser in conquest fiction
  • Women of the conquest
  • Exploitation
  • The decline and fall of the Hispanic great house
  • The literary degradation of the Mexican
  • The cinematic degradation of the Mexican, 1894-1947
  • Repentance
  • The American as sinner-samaritan
  • Four faces of the Mexican in modern popular fiction
  • The Mexican in the movies, 1946-1976.

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