CHICANO 149 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Six Days, Seven Nights, Rudolph Valentino, Carmen Miranda
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Chicano 149: chapter 3: a crash course on hollywood"s latino imagery -charles ramirez berg. Six basic stereotypes: el bandido, harlot, male buffoon, female clown, latin lover, and dark lady. The cultural and narrative dynamics of hollywood cinema. Goal-oriented protagonist/goal-driven hero will be white, handsome, middle-aged, upper- middle-class, heterosexual, protestant, anglo-saxon male (for hollywood) Hollywood"s goal is to illustrate the great white hero as being superior, so must contrast it with how inferior the other characters are. The other characters serve as the backdrop to which the protagonist is to display his eminence. All people of color represent an inherent threat to the status quo because they are different from the wasp norm. Mexican bandit in countless westerns and adventure lms. Rooted in item villains of the silent greaser lms. Dirty, unkempt, scarred, vicious, cruel, treacherous, shifty, dishonest, irrational, overly emotional, quick to resort to violence.