Latino Los Angeles in film and fiction : the cultural production of social anxiety / Ignacio López-Calvo.
2011
PS153.M4 L68 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Latino Los Angeles in film and fiction : the cultural production of social anxiety / Ignacio López-Calvo.
Author
López-Calvo, Ignacio.
ISBN
9780816529261 (alk. paper)
0816529264 (alk. paper)
0816529264 (alk. paper)
Imprint
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PS153.M4 L68 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.9/9287/0896872
Summary
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 López-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 production is closely related to the politics of spatial location. This spatial-temporal approach, he writes, reveals significant social anxieties, repressed rage, and deep racial guilt. Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction sets out to reconfigure the scope of Latino literary and cultural studies. Gathering histories of different regions and nations, the book sets the interplay of unresolved contradictions in this particular metropolitan area. The novelists studied here stem from multiple areas, including the U.S. Southwest, Guatemala, and Chile. The study also incorporates non-Latino writers who have contributed to the Latino culture of the city. The first chapter examines Latino cultural production from an ecocritical perspective on urban interethnic relations. Chapter 2 concentrates on the representation of daily life in the barrio and the marginalization of Latino urban youth. The third chapter explores the space of women and how female characters expand their area of ooperationsfrom the domestic space to the public space of both the barrio and the city. A much-needed contribution to the fields of urban theory, race critical theory, Chicana/o-Latina/o studies, and Los Angeles writing and film, Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction offers analysis from multiple theoretical perspectives---including urban theory, ecocriticism, ethnic studies, gender studies and cultural studies---contextualized with notions of transnationalism and post-nationalism.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Environmental racism and the politics of nature
The marginalization of Latino urban youth
Gendered and nationalistic anxieties
Conclusion
Appendix 1 : Chronological list of literary and testimonial works
Appendix 2 : Chronological list of films and documentaries.
The marginalization of Latino urban youth
Gendered and nationalistic anxieties
Conclusion
Appendix 1 : Chronological list of literary and testimonial works
Appendix 2 : Chronological list of films and documentaries.