Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film Culture [Paperback]

Rosa Linda Fregoso (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

The author (Chicana/o studies, Univ. of California at Davis) analyzes recent Chicano films, including La Bamba (1987) and American Me (1992), plus some earlier, less-well-known films. In a time of increasing awareness of diversity issues, her provocative, feminist-based analysis of Chicano films and their messages, which often counters popular images of Chicano history and culture, is certainly welcome. Fregoso also contributed to Chon A. Noriega's Chicanos and Film: Essays on Chicano Representation and Resistance (Garland, 1992), which offers a selection of essays by various critics of this fairly new area of film criticism. Recommended for Chicano studies, women's studies, and large film collections.
- James E. Ross, Seattle P.L.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press; 1 edition (October 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0816621365
• ISBN-13: 978-0816621361
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,011 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Rosa-Linda Fregoso was born in Corpus Christi, Texas to a Tejana mother and a Mexican father, and earned her PhD from the University of California, San Diego. For twenty-four years she has taught at the University of California and the University of Southern California. Her third book, meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands, was awarded the MLA prize for best Latina/Chicano cultural studies book. A former television and radio journalist, Fregoso lives in Oakland California.