Censorship and Hollywood's Hispanic Image: An Interpretive Filmography, 1936-1955 Alfred Richard 9780313288425

Between 1936 and 1955, Hollywood significantly changed its portrayal of Hispanics in motion pictures. This change resulted from the demands of the Production Code Administration, which required film makers to eliminate the more offensive stereotypical Hispanic images. This filmography chronicles all of the Hispanic-related films released during this period. The volume includes entries for nearly four thousand films. The entries are arranged in chapters, with each chapter devoted to a single year. Within the chapters, the entries are listed alphabetically by film title. Each entry includes production information, an annotation detailing the film's Hispanic significance, and references to additional materials. The volume concludes with an alphabetical index of film titles, an index of actors and actresses, an index of place names, a general subject index, and an index of songs. Film historians and scholars of Hispanic culture will find this work to be an indispensable reference tool.

ALFRED CHARLES RICHARD, JR., is Professor of Latin American History at Central Connecticut State University. He is the author of The Hispanic Image on the Silver Screen (Greenwood Press, 1992) and The Panama Canal in American National Consciousness (1990).