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New Insights into Latino Film History – and the Future

Michael A. Olivas, New Insights into Latino Film History – and the Future, SOMOS En Escrito.com (September 2015),
www.somosenescrito.com/2015/09/we-have-talent-but-where-are-roles.html ...
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Book review, I’ll Just Cry, 96 Tears, 24 Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingue (1999), 292-294

For readers who follow rock and roll and the scholarship spawned by it this is a good time to be alive. Not only has the advent of the CD meant that even the most obscure early... Download PDF File

Book review, Linda Ronstadt Simple Dreams (October 2013)

Michael A. Olivas, A Voice Stilled But the Memories Sing On, Review of Linda Ronstadt, Simple Dreams, A Musical Memoir, also in Spanish: Suenos Sencillos, Memorias Musicales, Somos En Escrito (October, 2013)... Download PDF File

El Norte (1983): Immigration Mythology as Crossover Dream

If you were to ask most persons to name a "Latino" film, chances are that they would name La Bamba or El Norte, if they could dredge up... Download PDF File

It's Only Rock 'n Roll, Pero Me Gusta, The Americas Review, Vol. 16 (Fall/Winter, 1988), 210-213

In the summer of 1960 or 1961, when I was 9 or 10, I lied to my parents, telling them that I was going to sleep over at Ricky Dodson's house... Download PDF File

Of Mestizaje Bricolage and Tergiversators Bilingual Rvew Vol. 20 No 1 Jan-Apr 1995

Rosa Linda Fregoso's book, The Bronze Screen, Chicana and Chicano Film Culture is not that work, but it is an important and signal advance... Download PDF File

Of Pachucos, Yeguas, Greasers, and Coffee and Eggs: Chicanos and Film Criticism

By all rights, this should be an exciting time for Chicano and other Latino film scholarship. Though hardly a torrent, there are an increasing number of films... Download PDF File
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