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Chicano cinema

El Teatro Campesino (2008) was founded in 1965 and remains active as of 2023.[1][2]

Chicano cinema is an aspect of Mexican American cinema that refers to the filmmaking practices that emerged out of the cultural consciousness developed through the Chicano Movement.[3] Luis Valdez is generally regarded as the first Chicano filmmaker and El Teatro Campesino as the first theater company.[2][4]

Chicano cinema is frequently set in the American Southwest, specifically the border states and in the southern region of California.[5] A predominant focus of many Chicano movies is addressing stereotypes, as well as political and economic struggles of Chicanos in America.[4]

  1. ^ "Calendar | El Teatro Campesino". Retrieved 2023-01-28.
  2. ^ a b Trejo, Arnulfo D. (1979). "As We See Ourselves in Chicano Literature". University of Arizona Press. Retrieved 2023-01-26.
  3. ^ Larson, Stephanie Greco (2006). Media & Minorities: The Politics of Race in News and Entertainment. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 64–65. ISBN 978-0-8476-9453-2.
  4. ^ a b Huerta, Jorge (2000-11-16). Chicano Drama: Performance, Society and Myth. Cambridge University Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-521-77817-6.
  5. ^ González, Crescencio López (2014). "Review of HIDDEN CHICANO CINEMA: Film Dramas in the Borderlands". American Studies. 53 (3): 100–101. doi:10.1353/ams.2014.0125. JSTOR 24589677. S2CID 143647861.

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