Latino TV : a history /
This book surveys the history of Latina and Latino depictions, narratives, and authorship in U.S. English-language television since the 1950s, with a focus on the navigations and impact of Latina/o series writers and creators as they have been able to enter the industrial landscape in recent decades...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2021].
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| Series: | Critical cultural communication.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Television and Latina/os' place in the nation
- 1950s : border heroes : kids' TV westerns and Mexican American marginalization
- 1960s-70s : by us, for us : Chicana/o and Nuyorican activist television
- 1970s : always the Chico (and never the writer)
- 1980s-90s : "what works for TV" : series that tried, and failed
- 2000s : by us, for everyone : Latino storytellers enter TV's mainstream
- 2010s : the Latina wave and other trends
- Conclusion: "Dear Hollywood" : the ongoing struggle for Latina/o television.