Hidden Chicano Cinema: Film Dramas in the Borderlands

by A. Gabriel Meléndez

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081356106X
• ISBN13: 9780813561066
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary