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Genre/Form: | Biography |
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Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Dianna C Niebylski; Patrick O'Connor |
ISBN: | 9780826519290 0826519296 9780826519306 082651930X |
OCLC Number: | 813931901 |
Description: | vii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: Reflections on Iconicity, Celebrity and Cultural Crossings / Patrick O'Connor and Dianna C. Niebylski -- 1. Pancho Villa: Icon of Insurgency / Brian Gollnick -- 2. Eva Peron: Excerpts from The Passion and the Exception / Beatriz Sarlo -- 3. From Korda's Guerrillero Heroico to Global Brand: Ernesto "Che" Guevara / J.P. Spicer-Escalante -- 4. Joaquin Murrieta and Lola Casanova: Shapeshifting Icons of the Contact Zone / Robert McKee Irwin -- 5. Tango International: Carlos Gardel and the Breaking of Sound Barriers / Rielle Navitski -- 6. Lupe Velez Before Hollywood: Mexico's First Iconic 'Modern Girl' / Kristy Rawson -- 7. From Hollywood and Back: Dolores Del Rio, a Trans(National) Star / Ana M. López -- 8. Carmen Miranda as Cultural Icon / David William Foster -- 9. Porfirio Rubirosa: Masculinity, Race, and the Jet-Setting Latin Male / Lizabeth Paravasini-Gebert and Eva Woods-Peiró -- 10. The Face of a Nation: Norma Aleandro as Argentina's Post-Dictatorial Middle Class Icon / Janis Breckenridge and Bécquer Medak-Seguin -- 11. The Neoliberal Stars: Salma Hayek, Gael García Bernal and the Post-Mexican Film Icon / Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado -- 12. Diego Armando Maradona: Life, Death and Resurrection (with One Act to Follow) / Juan Villoro -- 13. Fetishizing Frida (excerpted from Devouring Frida [1999]) / Margaret Lindauer -- Afterword. The Afterlife of Icons and the Future of Iconology / Patrick O'Connoor and Dianna C. Niebylski. |
Responsibility: | edited by Dianna C. Niebylski, Patrick O'Connor. |
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Marked by a solid group of essays produced primarily by literary and film studies scholars, this volume offers some important opportunities to examine key representations of Latin American icons. Perhaps more significantly, it frames these representations within the context of the cults of celebrity that have so often over-determined our understandings of these individuals, both past and present. - Maria Elena Cepeda, Williams College, author of Musical Imagination "The icons under study--some familiar to us, other not--come alive on the pages." - Kathryn Sloan, University of Arkansas, author of Women's Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean Read more...
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