Latino Los Angeles in film and fiction : the cultural production of social anxiety

Latino Los Angeles in film and fiction : the cultural production of social anxiety / Ignacio López-Calvo.

Los Angeles has long been a place where cultures clash and reshape. The city has a growing number of Latina/o authors and filmmakers who are remapping and reclaiming it through ongoing symbolic appropriation. In this illuminating book, Ignacio López-Calvo foregrounds the emotional experiences of aut...

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Main Author: López-Calvo, Ignacio
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2011.
Subjects:
American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Mexican Americans in motion pictures.
Popular culture > United States > History.
Mexican Americans in literature.
Mexican Americans > Intellectual life.
Culture.
Social phobia.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > In motion pictures.
Table of Contents:
  • Environmental racism and the politics of nature
  • The marginalization of Latino urban youth
  • Gendered and nationalistic anxieties
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1 : Chronological list of literary and testimonial works
  • Appendix 2 : Chronological list of films and documentaries.

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