From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture

Myra Mendible

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Latin American and Latino Studies Cinema History and Criticism Cultural Identity and Representation

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* Introduction: Embodying Latinidad: An Overview (Myra Mendible) * Section One. Case Studies: Silent and Classic Film Era *1. Film Viewing in Latino Communities, 1896-1934: Puerto Rico as Microcosm (Clara E. Rodriguez) *2. Lupe Velez: Queen of the B's (Rosa Linda Fregoso) *3. Lupe Velez Regurgitated: Cautionary, Indigestion-Causing Ruminations on Mexicans in American Toilets Perpetrated While Covetously Screening Veronica (William A. Nericcio) * Section Two. Performing Bodies: Contemporary Film and Music Media *4. Celia's Shoes (Frances Negron-Muntaner) *5. Salma Hayek's Frida: Transnational Latina Bodies in Popular Culture (Isabel Molina Guzman) *6. Is Penelope to J.Lo as Culture Is to Nature? Eurocentric Approaches to Latin Beauties (Angharad Valdivia) *7. Jennifer Lopez: The New Wave of Border Crossing (Tara Lockhart) *8. There's My Territory: Shakira Crossing Over (Cynthia Fuchs) *9. Hey, Killer: The Construction of a Macho Latina, or the Perils and Enticements of Girlfight (Karen R. Tolchin) * Section Three. Sensational Bodies: Discourses of Latina Femininity *10. On the Semiotics of Lorena Bobbitt (Charla Ogaz) *11. Disorderly Bodies and Discourses of Latinidad in the Elian Gonzalez Story (Isabel Molina Guzman) *12. The Body in Question: The Latina Detective in the Lupe Solano Mystery Series (Ana Patricia Rodriguez) *13. La Princesa Plastica: Hegemonic and Oppositional Representations of Latinidad in Hispanic Barbie (Karen Goldman) *14. Chusmas, Chismes, y Escandalos: Latinas Talk Back to El Show de Cristina and Laura en America (Viviana Rojas) * Notes on Contributors * Index

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