Charles Ramírez Berg

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Latino Images in Film

Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance

University of Texas Press

In this book, Charles Ramírez Berg develops an innovative theory of stereotyping that accounts for the persistence of images of Latinos in U.S. popular culture

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Cinema of Solitude

A Critical Study of Mexican Film, 1967-1983

University of Texas Press

A study of el Nuevo Cine (the New Cinema) and its films presenting alienated characters caught in a painful transition period in which old family, gender, and social roles have ceased to function without being replaced by viable new ones.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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A Little Solitaire

John Frankenheimer and American Film

Edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer; Introduction by R. Barton Palmer
Rutgers University Press

Little Solitaire offers the only multidisciplinary critical account of Frankenheimer's oeuvre. Especially emphasized is his deep and passionate engagement with national politics and the irrepressible need of human beings to assert their rights and individuality in the face of organizations that would reduce them to silence and anonymity.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez

University of Texas Press

With insightful analysis of films ranging from El Mariachi to Spy Kids 4 and Machete Kills, as well as a lively interview in which the filmmaker discusses his career, here is the first scholarly overview of the work of Robert Rodriguez, the most successful U.S. Latino filmmaker today.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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The Classical Mexican Cinema

The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films

University of Texas Press

In one of the first systematic studies of style in Mexican filmmaking, a preeminent film scholar explores the creation of a Golden Age cinema that was uniquely Mexican in its themes, styles, and ideology.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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