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- Hidden Chicano Cinema: Film Dramas in the Borderlands
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
- Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States Series
summary
Hidden Chicano Cinema examines how New Mexico, situated within the boundaries of the United States, became a stand-in for the exotic non-western world that tourists, artists, scientists, and others sought to possess at the dawn of early filmmaking, a disposition stretching from the silent era to today as filmmakers screen their fantasies of what they wished the Southwest Borderlands to be.
The book highlights “film moments” in this region’s history including the “filmic turn” ushered in by Chicano/a filmmakers who created new ways to represent their community and region. A. Gabriel Meléndez narrates the drama, intrigue, and politics of these moments and accounts for the specific cinematic practices and the sociocultural detail that explains how the camera itself brought filmmakers and their subjects to unexpected encounters on and off the screen. Such films as Adventures in Kit Carson Land, The Rattlesnake, and Red Sky at Morning, among others, provide examples of movies that have both educated and misinformed us about a place that remains a “distant locale” in the mind of most film audiences.
The book highlights “film moments” in this region’s history including the “filmic turn” ushered in by Chicano/a filmmakers who created new ways to represent their community and region. A. Gabriel Meléndez narrates the drama, intrigue, and politics of these moments and accounts for the specific cinematic practices and the sociocultural detail that explains how the camera itself brought filmmakers and their subjects to unexpected encounters on and off the screen. Such films as Adventures in Kit Carson Land, The Rattlesnake, and Red Sky at Morning, among others, provide examples of movies that have both educated and misinformed us about a place that remains a “distant locale” in the mind of most film audiences.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 1-4
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-xiv
- Ill Will Hunting (Penitentes)
- pp. 31-52
- A Lie Halfway around the World
- pp. 53-80
- Lives and Faces Plying through Exotica
- pp. 81-112
- Red Sky at Morning, a Borderlands Interlude
- pp. 113-145
- Filming Bernalillo
- pp. 187-215
- Toward a New Proxemics
- pp. 216-241
- Conclusion
- pp. 242-246
- Bibliography
- pp. 257-264
- About the Author
- pp. 273-274
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813561080
Related ISBN(s)
9780813561073
MARC Record
OCLC
862367858
Pages
288
Launched on MUSE
2013-10-30
Language
English
Open Access
No