TY  - BOOK
AU  - Molina-Guzman,Isabel
TI  - Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in the Media 
T2  - Critical Cultural Communication
SN  - 9780814757352
AV  - P94.5.W652 U665 2016
U1  - 302.2308968073 23
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Hispanic American women in mass media
KW  - Mass media and minorities
KW  - United States
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Dissociative Identity Disorder
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Curves
KW  - Dangerous
KW  - Latina
KW  - analyzing
KW  - audience
KW  - body
KW  - broad
KW  - culture
KW  - discussions
KW  - gossip
KW  - including
KW  - media
KW  - movies
KW  - news
KW  - online
KW  - popular
KW  - range
KW  - television
KW  - traces
KW  - visibility
N1  - restricted access
N2  - With images of Jennifer Lopez's butt and America Ferrera's smile saturating national and global culture, Latina bodies have become an ubiquitous presence. Dangerous Curves traces the visibility of the Latina body in the media and popular culture by analyzing a broad range of popular media including news, media gossip, movies, television news, and online audience discussions.Isabel Molina-Guzmán maps the ways in which the Latina body is gendered, sexualized, and racialized within the United States media using a series of fascinating case studies. The book examines tabloid headlines about Jennifer Lopez's indomitable sexuality, the contested authenticity of Salma Hayek's portrayal of Frida Kahlo in the movie Frida, and America Ferrera's universally appealing yet racially sublimated Ugly Betty character. Dangerous Curves carves out a mediated terrain where these racially ambiguous but ethnically marked feminine bodies sell everything from haute couture to tabloids.Through a careful examination of the cultural tensions embedded in the visibility of Latina bodies in United States media culture, Molina-Guzmán paints a nuanced portrait of the media's role in shaping public knowledge about Latina identity and Latinidad, and the ways political and social forces shape media representations
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759547
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814759547/original
ER  -