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Jacqueline Vansant. Austria Made In Hollywood. Camden House, 2019., Jason Doerre
Jacqueline Vansant. Austria Made In Hollywood. Camden House, 2019., Jason Doerre
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Jacqueline Vansant. Austria Made in Hollywood. Camden House, 2019. 196 pp.
Antonio Banderas: Hispanic Gay Masculinities And The Global Mirror Stage (1991-2001) , Joseba Gabilondo
Antonio Banderas: Hispanic Gay Masculinities And The Global Mirror Stage (1991-2001) , Joseba Gabilondo
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Here I map out the Atlantic intertwining between neo-liberal/neo-imperial Spain and cinema by analyzing Antonio Banderas's body politics as the postmodern (post- or neoimperialist) Don Juan. Banderas's career trajectory from 1991 to 2001 coincides with larger political and historical developments. He arrived in Hollywood in the early 1990s, a moment when different but interconnected historical events came together— the end of the Cold War and the neo-liberal globalization of the United States with treaties such as NAFTA and GATT; the growing public profile of the fundamentalist religious right and gays; and the mainstream population's (unwilling) acceptance of Latinos as a …
Fan Letters To The Cultural Industries: Border Literature About Mass Media, Claire Fox
Fan Letters To The Cultural Industries: Border Literature About Mass Media, Claire Fox
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
The concentration of the Mexican and U.S. cultural industries in cities outside of the border region and the intermittent outsourcing of Hollywood movies to production facilities in Baja, California, have had a marked impact on the literary practice of "fronterizo" 'border' intellectuals. This essay discusses the theme of the cinema in three narratives by authors from the U.S.-Mexico border region: "Hotel Frontera" ("Border Hotel"), by Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz, "Canícula," by Norma Elia Cantú, and "The Magic of Blood," by Dagoberto Gilb. These narratives provide ethnographic information about the reception of nationally distributed mass media in the border region; at the …