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Language
  
English

Originally published
  
1 October 2007

Genre
  
Non-fiction

Publisher
  
University of Texas Press

Editor
  
Myra Mendible

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Pages
  
336 pages

Author
  
Myra Mendible

ISBN
  
0292714920

Country
  
United States of America

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Subject
  
Latina women Film Culture

Media type
  
Print (hardback, paperback), e-book

From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture is a 2007 non-fiction collection of essays that was edited by Myra Mendible. The book was published through the University of Texas Press and examines the roles and impact of depictions of Latina women in film and culture.

Contents

Content

The book collects essays from several academics and authorities and is prefaced by an introduction by the collection's editor, Mendible. The essays are split into three sections, each of which examine a different aspect of Latinas in film and culture. Some essays examine specific performers such as Lupe Vélez.

  • Section One: Case Studies: Silent and Classic Film Era
    1. "Film Viewing in Latino Communities, 1896-1934: Puerto Rico as Microcosm" by Clara E. Rodríguez
    2. "Lupe Vélez: Queen of the B's" by Rosa-Linda Fregoso
    3. "Lupe Vélez Regurgitated: Cautionary, Indigestion-Causing Ruminations on "Mexicans" in "American" Toilets Perpetrated While Covetously Screening "Veronica"" by William A. Nericcio
  • Section Two. Performing Bodies: Contemporary Film and Music Media
    1. "Celia's Shoes" by Frances Negrón-Muntaner
    2. "Salma Hayek's Frida: Transnational Latina Bodies in Popular Culture" by Isabel Molina Guzmán
    3. "Is Penelope to J.Lo as Culture Is to Nature? Eurocentric Approaches to "Latin" Beauties" by Angharad Valdivia
    4. "Jennifer Lopez: The New Wave of Border Crossing" by Tara Lockhart
    5. ""There's My Territory": Shakira Crossing Over" by Cynthia Fuchs
    6. ""Hey, Killer": The Construction of a Macho Latina, or the Perils and Enticements of Girlfight" by Karen R. Tolchin
  • Section Three. Sensational Bodies: Discourses of Latina Femininity
    1. "On the Semiotics of Lorena Bobbitt" by Charla Ogaz
    2. "Disorderly Bodies and Discourses of Latinidad in the Elián González Story" as Isabel Molina Guzmán
    3. "The Body in Question: The Latina Detective in the Lupe Solano Mystery Series" by Ana Patricia Rodríguez
    4. La Princesa Plástica: Hegemonic and Oppositional Representations of Latinidad in Hispanic Barbie" by Karen Goldman
    5. "Chusmas, Chismes, y Escándalos: Latinas Talk Back to El Show de Cristina and Laura en América" by Viviana Rojas

    Reception

    From Bananas to Buttocks received reviews from the NWSA Journal, Hispanic American Historical Review, and Latino Studies.

    References

    From Bananas to Buttocks Wikipedia
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