Dangerous Curves

Latina Bodies in the Media

By: Isabel Molina-Guzman

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Hardcover | 3 March 2010

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272 Pages

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22.9 x 15.2 x 1.91

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Published: 3rd March 2010

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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.

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"Dangerous Curves is an absolutely essential, central, and most insightful component of Latina/o media studies. Molina Guzman brings together structural, labor, textual, and audience elements to provide a nuanced analysis whose influence will span across communication, media, and Latina/o studies. Angharad N. Valdivia, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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