![]() ![]() ![]() Showalter, it is also a remarkable act of friendship. In Viva Zapata!, however, we have “a monument to what Hollywood can accomplish in social biography.” Images of the Mexican American in Fiction and Film is a real contribu tion to scholarship and, more broadly, to an understanding ofAmerican ethni city. Tortilla Flat, Pettit says, is guilty of “ethnically based distortions” the persons in Monterey, happy but poor, yet never rational or industrious, unconcerned about family ties, appear as an ethnic norm in Steinbeck’s book. In fact, the various derogatory images of the Mexican American - the greaser, the unmanly male, the brown seduc tress - are generally less offensive on screen than in print. Reviews 325 seducers or mockers, clowns or conformists - are defined primarily by their actual and potential oppressors.” Some relief from oppressive stereotyping, Pettit finds, occurs in films, particularly since World War II. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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