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Mexicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands
Mexicana Encounters charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. Fregoso's self-reflexive approach to cultural politics embraces the movement for social justice and offers new insights into the ways that racial and gender differences are inscribed in cult... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Lourdes Portillo: The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Films
Filmmaker Lourdes Portillo sees her mission as "channeling the hopes and dreams of a people." Clearly, political commitment has inspired her choice of subjects. With themes ranging from state repression to AIDS, Portillo's films include: Después del Terremoto, the Oscar-nominated Las Madres: The Mot... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
Border Cinema: Reimagining Identity through Aesthetics (Global Media and Race)
by Frederick Luis Aldama • Jennifer Harford Vargas • José Capino • Rosa-Linda Fregoso • Nurith Gertz • Marina Hassapopoulou • Elena Lahr-Vivaz • Yael Munk • Anita Pinzi • Anat ZangerThe rise of digital media and globalization’s intensification since the 1990s have significantly refigured global cinema’s form and content. The coincidence of digitalization and globalization has produced what this book helps to define and describe as a flourishing border cinema whose aesthetics re... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019