READINGS:
● Clara
Rodriguez Latin Looks: Images of Latinas and Latinos in the
● Denise Chavez, Loving Pedro Infante (
● COURSE READER available in Cougar Copies.
FILM LIST:
The Bronze
Screen: 100 years of the Latino Image in
The Ring (1952)
Salt of the Earth (1954)
La Vida No Vale Nada (1954)
El Super (1979)
Alambrista (1977)
Zoot Suit (1981)
Born in
Lone Star (1996)
Selena (1997)
Real Women Have Curves (2002)
Note: All these films will be on reserve at Media Reserves, Holland Library.
COURSE SCHEDULE:
Week 1 Introductions
and Review of Course Requirements and Policies
(Thursday, January
12th, 2006)
The difference between watching a film and analyzing a film.
VIDEO: Excerpt of Cultural Criticism
Week 2: History of Latino/a Images in
(Thursday, January 19th, 2006)
READ: Carlos Cortes “Chicanas in Film: History of an Image” [121-139]] and Charles Ramirez-Berg,
“Stereotyping in Films in General and of the Hispanic in Particular” [104-119] in Latin Looks
FILM: The Bronze
Screen: 100 years of the Latino Image in
Week 3: The Rise of
the
(Thursday, January 26th, 2006)
READ: Chon Noriega, “Citizen Chicano” [85-98] in Latin Looks
FILM: The Ring (1952)
EXTRA CREDIT (3pts): CES FILM SERIES: "Popi" (1969)
Tuesday, January 31, 6:00 PM, CUE 316: facilitated by Carmen Lugo-Lugo and Cheris Brewer
Week 4: Mexican
Americans and the
(Thursday, February
2, 2006).
READ: Linda Williams,” Type and Stereotype: Chicano Images in Film” [214-220] in Latin Looks
and James Lorence, “The
Suppression of Salt of the Earth in Midwest
FILM: Salt of the Earth (1954)
Week 5 Chicana
Identity, Gender Relations and Mexican Cinema
(Thursday, February
9th, 2006).
Discussion of the Pedro Infante fan club
READ: Denise Chavez’s Loving Pedro Infante, Part 1
& 2
FILM: Biography: Asi Era Pedro Infante (2000)
FIRST ESSAY DUE
EXTRA CREDIT (3pts): Girl's Film Series: "Crazy/Beautiful" Wednesday February 15th 6:30pm CUE 319
Week 6 Chicana Identity, Gender Relations and Mexican Cinema
(Thursday, February
16th, 2006).
READ: Denise Chavez’s Loving Pedro Infante, Part 3, 4
& 5
FILM: La Vida No Vale Nada (1954)
Week 7 Hollywood Constructions of "Latinidad"
(Thursday, February
23rd 2006)
READ: Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez, “Carmen Miranda and Desi Arnaz: Foundational Images
of “Latinidad” in Broadway and
FILM: I Love Lucy (1951-57) selected episodes
EXTRA CREDIT: Granito de Arena (Grain of Sand) CUE 203 7pm
Week 8
(Thursday, March 2 th, 2006)
Week 9 The Celluloid Immigrant
(Thursday, March 9th 2006)
READ: Cordelia Candelaria, “Tightrope Walking the Border: Alambrista and the Acrobatics of Mestizo Representation” in COURSE READER
FILM: Alambrista (1977)
SPRING VACATION [March
13-17, 2006]
Week 10 Rise of
Chicano Cinema
(Thursday, March 23rd, 2006)
READ: Rosa Lind Fregoso, "The Representation of Cultural Identity in Zoot Suit" [REQUIRED] and
“Zoot Suit: The Return to the Beginning”[OPTIONAL] in COURSE READER
FILM: Zoot Suit (1981)
SECOND ESSAY DUE
Week 11 Cultural
Schizophrenia to Border Consciousness
(Thursday, March 30th, 2006)
READ: Alicia Gaspar de Alba “From Cultural Schizophrenia to Border Consciousness in
Cheech Marin’s Born in
FILM: Born in
Week 12 Borders and
Boundaries
(Thursday, April 6th, 2006)
READ: Dennis West and Joan West, “Borders and Boundaries: An Interview with John Sayles” and
Rosa Linda Fregoso, “Recyling Colonialist Fantasies on the
FILM: Lone Star (1996)
Week 13 The Politics of Latinidad
(Thursday, April, 13th 2006)
READ: Deborah Paredez,
“Remembering Selena, Re-membering Latinidad” and
“Jennifer’s Butt: Valorizing the Puerto Rican Racialized Female Body” in COURSE READER
FILM: Selena (1997)
Week 14 The
(Thursday, April, 20th, 2006) Special Guest Lecturer: Dr. Carmen Lugo-Lugo
Week 15
(Thursday, April, 27th 2006)
READ: Josefina Lopez, “Real Women Have Curves: A Comedy” in COURSE READER
FILM: Real Women Have Curves (2002)
Viewing Guide #10 Due
THIRD ESSAY DUE
Thursday, May 4 nd before 5pm