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T1 Transational explorations of a Chicano filmmaker: views from US-Mexico border
A1 Espinosa, Paul
K1 Critical article
K1 Ensayo
K1 Película documental
K1 Región fronteriza
K1 US-Mexico
K1 Migración
K1 La frontera
K1 Cultura chicana
K1 Historia fronteriza
K1 Medios de comunicación transfronterizos
K1 Documentary film
K1 US-Mexico border region
K1 Inmigration
K1 Borderlands
K1 Chicano culture
K1 Border history
K1 Transborder media
K1 Humanidades
K1 Historia de América
K1 America-History
K1 Arte
K1 Art
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
AB This essay offers a brief overview of my filmmaking work over the last 30 years,during which I have focused on the U.S.-Mexico border region, producing filmsprincipally for PBS, the public television system in the United States. Throughcollaboration with many other filmmakers, I’ve had the opportunity to examine manykey moments in the transborder history of the region. These films were broadcast to anational audience in the US and have also been screened in numerous festivals in LatinAmerica and around the world. My films have focused on themes and periods ofsignificance to the transnational U.S.-Mexican community, including: the war betweenMexico and the United States in the 19th century (The US-Mexican War: 1846-1848);the fight by Mexican American miners in the early 20th century to create a labor unionin the Phelps Dodge mines of Arizona (Los Mineros); the journey north of generationsof Mexican immigrants, represented by the trail which one family followed from BajaCalifornia to San Diego, California (The Trail North); the dramatic raid by MexicanGeneral Francisco “Pancho” Villa on the small community of Columbus, New Mexicoin 1916, and the American expedition sent to capture him (The Hunt for Pancho Villa);the fascinating story of Pedro J. González, from his days in the Mexican Revolution with Pancho Villa to his recording stardom in Los Angeles in the 1930s (Ballad of anUnsung Hero); the struggle of Mexican parents in San Diego to secure equal educationalrights for their children (The Lemon Grove Incident); the lives of undocumented Mexicanfamilies in California after the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of1986 (In the Shadow of the Law); the sharpening tensions between affluent suburbs insouthern California and the Latino immigrants living nearby in primitive conditions(Uneasy Neighbors); the dramatic growth and development of Mexican border cities (TheNew Tijuana); the unfolding drama of the permeable U.S.-Mexico border (The Border);and the challenges of migrant workers and their children as they struggle to survive onthe migrant trail (…and the earth did not swallow him).
PB Instituto B. Flanklin de Estudios Norteamericanos. Universidad de Alcalá de Henares
YR 2010
FD 2010
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/8325
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/8325
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 24-abr-2024