Description
Latino American cinema is a provocative, complex, and definitively American topic of study. This book examines key mainstream commercial films while also spotlighting often-underappreciated documentaries, avant-garde and experimental projects, independent productions, features and shorts, and more. Latino American Cinema: An Encyclopedia of Movies, Stars, Concepts, and Trends serves as an essential primary reference for students of the topic as well as an accessible resource for general readers. The alphabetized entries in the volume cover the key topics of this provocative and complex genre-films, filmmakers, star performers, concepts, and historical and burgeoning trends-alongside frequently overlooked and crucially ignored items of interest in Latino cinema. This comprehensive treatment bridges gaps between traditional approaches to U.S.-Latino and Latin American cinemas, placing subjects of Chicana and Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban and diasporic Cuban, and Mexican origin in perspective with related Central and South American and Caribbean elements. Many of the entries offer compact definitions, critical discussions, overviews, and analyses of star artists, media productions, and historical moments, while several foundational entries explicate concepts, making this single volume encyclopedia a critical guide as well.
Latino American cinema is a provocative, complex, and definitively American topic of study. This book examines key mainstream commercial films while also spotlighting often-underappreciated documentaries, avant-garde and experimental projects, independent productions, features and shorts, and more.
About the Author
Scott L. Baugh is associate professor of film and media studies in the English department at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.
Reviews
Baugh (film & media studies, Texas Tech Univ.) has compiled an essential scholarly tool for Latino American film and culture studies. . . . This solid resource fills a critical gap in Latino studies reference material. * Library Journal *
The resource guide section is particularly well structured, with a list of relevant online academic and commercial resources; Latino research centers in the US, the Caribbean, and South America; and media distributors that handle Latino cinema. College, university, and public libraries serving Latino populations will benefit from this book. Summing Up: Recommended. * Choice *
Book Information
ISBN 9780313380365
Author Scott L. Baugh
Format Hardback
Page Count 340
Imprint Greenwood Press
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Weight(grams) 907g
Latino American cinema is a provocative, complex, and definitively American topic of study. This book examines key mainstream commercial films while also spotlighting often-underappreciated documentaries, avant-garde and experimental projects, independent productions, features and shorts, and more.
About the Author
Scott L. Baugh is associate professor of film and media studies in the English department at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.
Reviews
Baugh (film & media studies, Texas Tech Univ.) has compiled an essential scholarly tool for Latino American film and culture studies. . . . This solid resource fills a critical gap in Latino studies reference material. * Library Journal *
The resource guide section is particularly well structured, with a list of relevant online academic and commercial resources; Latino research centers in the US, the Caribbean, and South America; and media distributors that handle Latino cinema. College, university, and public libraries serving Latino populations will benefit from this book. Summing Up: Recommended. * Choice *
Book Information
ISBN 9780313380365
Author Scott L. Baugh
Format Hardback
Page Count 340
Imprint Greenwood Press
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Weight(grams) 907g
