From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture Book

Introduction: Embodying Latinidad: An Overview   Myra Mendible     1
Case Studies: Silent and Classic Film Era     29
Film Viewing in Latino Communities, 1896-1934: Puerto Rico as Microcosm   Clara E. Rodriguez     31
Lupe Velez: Queen of the B's   Rosa Linda Fregoso     51
Lupe Velez Regurgitated: Cautionary, Indigestion-Causing Ruminations on "Mexicans" in "American" Toilets Perpetrated While Covetously Screening "Veronica"   William A. Nericcio     69
Performing Bodies: Contemporary Film and Music Media     93
Celia's Shoes   Frances Negron-Muntaner     95
Salma Hayek's Frida: Transnational Latina Bodies in Popular Culture   Isabel Molina Guzman     117
Is Penelope to J.Lo as Culture Is to Nature? Eurocentric Approaches to "Latin" Beauties   Angharad Valdivia     129
Jennifer Lopez: The New Wave of Border Crossing   Tara Lockhart     149
"There's My Territory": Shakira Crossing Over   Cynthia Fuchs     167
"Hey, Killer": The Construction of a Macho Latina, or the Perils and Enticements of Girlfight   Karen R. Tolchin     183
Sensational Bodies: Discourses of Latina Femininity     199
On the Semiotics of Lorena Bobbitt   Charla Ogaz     201
Disorderly Bodies and Discourses of Latinidad in the Elian Gonzalez Story   Isabel Molina Guzman     219
The Body in Question: The Latina Detective in the Lupe Solano Mystery Series   Ana Patricia Rodriguez     243
La Princesa Plastica: Hegemonic and Oppositional Representations of Latinidad in Hispanic Barbie   Karen Goldman     263
Chusmas, Chismes, y Escandalos: Latinas Talk Back to El Show de Cristina and Laura en America   Viviana Rojas     279
Contributors     311
Index     315