Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction: The Cultural Production of Social Anxiety

by Ignacio López-Calvo

Book Overview

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 L pez-Calvo foregrounds the emotional experiences of authors, implicit authors, narrators, characters, and readers in order to demonstrate that the evolution of the imaging of Los Angeles in Latino cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816531048
• ISBN13: 9780816531042
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"