{"product_id":"hidden-chicano-cinema-film-dramas-in-the-borderlands-paperback","title":"Hidden Chicano Cinema: Film Dramas in the Borderlands - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eA. Gabriel Meléndez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHidden Chicano Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e examines how New Mexico, situated within the boundaries of the United States, became a stand-in for the exotic non-western world that tourists, artists, scientists, and others sought to possess at the dawn of early filmmaking, a disposition stretching from the silent era to today as filmmakers screen their fantasies of what they wished the Southwest Borderlands to be. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book highlights \"film moments\" in this region's history including the \"filmic turn\" ushered in by Chicano\/a filmmakers who created new ways to represent their community and region. A. Gabriel Meléndez narrates the drama, intrigue, and politics of these moments and accounts for the specific cinematic practices and the sociocultural detail that explains how the camera itself brought filmmakers and their subjects to unexpected encounters on and off the screen. Such films as \u003ci\u003eAdventures in Kit Carson Land, The Rattlesnake, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRed Sky at Morning\u003c\/i\u003e, among others, provide examples of movies that have both educated and misinformed us about a place that remains a \"distant locale\" in the mind of most film audiences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA. GABRIEL MELÉNDEZ is a professor and chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eSo All Is Not Lost: The Poetics of Print in Nuevomexicano Communities, 1836-1958\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 19, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757776339232,"sku":"9780813561066","price":70.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ef2222b7b563e1b5077aa9a1a42fc2b3.webp?v=1780111459","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/hidden-chicano-cinema-film-dramas-in-the-borderlands-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}