Format:
248 S.
,
Ill.
,
23cm
Edition:
1. ed.
ISBN:
0292714564
,
0292714572
,
9780292714564
,
9780292714571
Content:
A decidedly odd tale of what happened when Hollywood killed Vaudeville, postcards boomed, and the United States invaded Mexico -- Hallucinations of Miscegenation and murder: dancing along the Mestiza/o borders of proto-Chicana/o cinema with Orson Welles's Touch of Evil -- When electrolysis proxies for the existential : a somewhat sordid meditation on what might occur if Frantz Fanon, Rosario Castellanos, Jacques Derrida, Gayatri Spivak, and Sandra Cisneros asked Rita Hayworth her name at the Tex[t]-Mex beauty parlor -- Autopsy of a rat : sundry parables of Warner Brothers Studios, Jewish American Animators, Speedy Gonzales, Freddy Lopez, and other Chicano/Latino marionettes prancing about our first world visual emporium ; Parable cameos by Jacques Derrida and, a dirty joke -- Lupe Velez regurgitated; or, Jesus's Kleenex : cautionary, Indigestion-inspiring ruminations on "Mexicans" in "American" toilets -- XicanOsmosis: Frida Kahlo and Mexico in the eyes of Gilbert Hernandez -- Conclusion(with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche):"have i been understood? XicanOsmosis versus the Tex[t]-Mex
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
A decidedly odd tale of what happened when Hollywood killed Vaudeville, postcards boomed, and the United States invaded MexicoHallucinations of Miscegenation and murder: dancing along the Mestiza/o borders of proto-Chicana/o cinema with Orson Welles's Touch of Evil -- When electrolysis proxies for the existential : a somewhat sordid meditation on what might occur if Frantz Fanon, Rosario Castellanos, Jacques Derrida, Gayatri Spivak, and Sandra Cisneros asked Rita Hayworth her name at the Tex[t]-Mex beauty parlor -- Autopsy of a rat : sundry parables of Warner Brothers Studios, Jewish American Animators, Speedy Gonzales, Freddy Lopez, and other Chicano/Latino marionettes prancing about our first world visual emporium ; Parable cameos by Jacques Derrida and, a dirty joke -- Lupe Velez regurgitated; or, Jesus's Kleenex : cautionary, Indigestion-inspiring ruminations on "Mexicans" in "American" toilets -- XicanOsmosis: Frida Kahlo and Mexico in the eyes of Gilbert Hernandez -- Conclusion(with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche):"have i been understood? XicanOsmosis versus the Tex[t]-Mex"
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
USA
;
Film
;
Mexikaner
;
Mexikobild
;
USA
;
Popkultur
;
Mexikaner
;
Mexikobild
;
USA
;
Mexikaner
;
Mexikobild
;
Film
;
Popkultur
