Abstract
Con bibliografia.
Introduction : embodying Latinidad : an overview /Myra Mendible --section 1. Case studies : silent and classic film era --1.Film viewing in Latino communities, 1896-1934 : Puerto Rico as microcosm /Clara E. Rodríguez --2.Lupe Vélez : queen of the B's /Rosa Linda Fregoso --3.Lupe Vélez regurgitated : cautionary, indigestion-causing ruminations on "Mexicans" in "American" toilets perpetrated while covetously screening "Veronica" /William A. Nericcio --section 2. Performing bodies : contemporary film and music media --4.Celia's shoes /Frances Negrón-Muntaner --5.Salma Hayek's Frida : transnational Latina bodies in popular culture /Isabel Molina Guzmán --6.Is Penélope to J.Lo as culture is to nature? : Eurocentric approaches to "Latin" beauties /Angharad Valdivia --7.Jennifer Lopez : the new wave of border crossing /Tara Lockhart --8."There's my territory" : Shakira crossing over /Cynthia Fuchs --9."Hey, killer" : the construction of a macho Latina, or the perils and enticements of Girlfight /Karen R. Tolchin --section 3. Sensational bodies : discourses of Latina femininity --10.On the semiotics of Lorena Bobbitt /Charla Ogaz --11.Disorderly bodies and discourses of Latinidad in the Elián González story /Isabel Molina Guzmán --12. Thebody in question : the Latina detective in the Lupe Solano mystery series /Ana Patricia Rodríguez --13. Laprincesa plástica : hegemonic and oppositional representations of Latinidad in Hispanic Barbie /Karen Goldman --14.Chusmas, Chismes, y Escándalos : Latinas talk back to El Show de Cristina and Laura en América /Viviana Rojas.