Table of Contents:
  • Out of the picture: Hispanics in the media / National Council of La Raza
  • Hispanic voices: is the press listening? / Jorge Quiroga
  • Distorted reality: Hispanic characters in TV entertainment / S. Robert Lichter and Daniel R. Amundson
  • Visual retrospective: Latino film stars / Clara E. Rodriguez
  • Citizen Chicano: the trials and titillations of ethnicity in the American cinema, 1935-1962 / Chon Noriega
  • Stereotyping in films in general and of the Hispanic in particular / Charles Ramirez Berg
  • Chicanas in film: history of an image / Carlos E. Cortes
  • From assimilation to annihilation: Puerto Rican images in U.S. films / Richie Perez
  • West side story: a Puerto Rican reading of "America" / Alberto Sandoval Sanchez
  • Keeping it reel? films of the 1980s and 1990s / Clara E. Rodriguez
  • From the margin to the center: Puerto Rican cinema in New York / Lillian Jimenez
  • Unofficial stories: documentaries by Latinas and Latin American women / Liz Kotz
  • Type and stereotype: Chicano images in film / Linda Williams
  • Two film reviews: My family/mi familia and The Perez family / Santiago Nieves and Frank Algarin
  • Hispanic-oriented media / Federico Subervi-Velez ... [et al.]
  • Promoting analytical and critical viewing / Clara E. Rodriguez
  • Questions and reflections about the readings in this book / Clara E. Rodriguez
  • What we can do / Clara E. Rodriguez.