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Latin Looks: Images of Latinas and Latinos in the U. S. Media » Read Now
by Clara E. Rodríguez. 288 pgs.

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"With depth & perception, Clara Rodriguez sketches the face of a people who have been mostly portrayed in outtakes & as mistakes in celluloid & print." Melita Marie Garza Chicago Tribune "The publication of Latin Looks is a significant event. Finally, someone is paying attention to the diverse &...
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"With depth & perception, Clara Rodriguez sketches the face of a people who have been mostly portrayed in outtakes & as mistakes in celluloid & print." Melita Marie Garza Chicago Tribune "The publication of Latin Looks is a significant event. Finally, someone is paying attention to the diverse & growing group of Latinos who make up ten percent of the nations population." Afterimage
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The Hispanic Image on the Silver Screen: An Interpretive Filmography from Silents into Sound, 1898-1935 » Read Now
by Alfred Charles Richard Jr. 576 pgs.

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This is the first collection of more than 1,800 films dealing with Hispanic topics, themes, and characters arranged chronologically from 1898 to 1935, with indepth annotations, cross-references and four separate indexes. A study of Hollywood's treatment of Hispanics worldwide. (those living in...
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This is the first collection of more than 1,800 films dealing with Hispanic topics, themes, and characters arranged chronologically from 1898 to 1935, with indepth annotations, cross-references and four separate indexes. A study of Hollywood's treatment of Hispanics worldwide. (those living in South, Central, and North America, the Philippines and Spain.) Richard has organized the work for those interested in assessing the effects that motion pictures have had on the viewing public in establishing and perpetuating accepted stereotypes. The role of censorship, the Production Code Administration, the Motion Picture Society for the Americas, the Latin American market, and Hollywood's version of Hispanic history are fully covered. Each entry includes a brief scenario which details the film's Hispanic connection.
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Television News, Prejudicial Pretrial Publicity, and the Depiction of Race, in Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media » Read Now
by Travis L. Dixon, Daniel Linz. 25 pgs.

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...ownership of the media, ethnocentrism...these positive images of Caucasians and criminal images of Blacks and Latinos...crime roles in the media, and this...
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Overrepresentation and Underrepresentation of African Americans and Latinos as Lawbreakers on Television News, in Journal of Communication » Read Now
by Travis L. Dixon, Daniel Linz. 24 pgs.

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...University of Michigan. He is primarily interested in the portrayal of African Americans in the mass media and the effects of these images on audiences. Daniel Linz is...
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Whose Home on the Range? Finding Room for Native Americans, African Americans, and Latino Americans in the Revisionist Western, in MELUS » Read Now
by Donald Hoffman. 15 pgs.

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...newspaper reporter who regards the Texas Rangers as both unimpeachable and objective. For the mainstream media, this is the story. The tragic irony of this mode of...
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Making Invisible Latino Adolescents Visible: A Critical Approach to Latino Diversity ("Chap. 7 "Demystifying the Images of Latinos") » Read Now
by Martha Montero-Sieburth, Francisco A.Villarruel. 360 pgs.

Collections: History, Education, Entire Library
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Agenda-Setting and Spanish Cable News, in Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media » Read Now
by Salma I. Ghanem, Wayne Wanta. 13 pgs.

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...have examined portrayals of Hispanics in the media through content analyses...to an examination of Hispanics and their uses of the news media. As Wanta (1997)...
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Refiguring Spain: Cinema, Media, Representation » Read Now
by Marsha Kinder. 370 pgs.

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...refiguring Spanish cultural identity through media representation in the post-Franco Period...world economy. With a few exceptions, most of these essays were written before...
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Completeness and Exclusion in Journalism Ethics: An Ethnographic Case Study, in Journal of Mass Media Ethics » Read Now
by Don Heider. 12 pgs.

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...newsrooms and ethnic communities. Media Images All the journalists interviewed said they believe the media can and do influence the Hispanic community as well as the larger...
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El Simpatico Boxer: Underpinning Chicano Masculinity with a Rhetoric of Familia in Resurrection Blvd, in Western Journal of Communication » Read Now
by Michelle A. Holling. 24 pgs.

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Inventing Hispanics: A Diverse Minority Resists Being Labeled, in Brookings Review » Read Now
by Amitai Etzioni. 4 pgs.

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...by which the media now refer to the majority of Americans. Because...in the census, Hispanics are now sometimes...increasing frequency, Hispanics are referred to...social...