Barrueto, Jorge J.

Dr. Barrueto is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Walsh University. A native of Peru, he earned his Ph.D. in Spanish and Cultural Studies from the State University of New York-Albany.

Primitivismo, Racismo y Misoginismo en el Cine Latinoamericano / Primitivism, Racism, and Misogyny in Latin American Cinema

2008 0-7734-5138-2
This study explores the aesthetic, social and political aspects present in Latin American cinema as portrayed in major representative films from the region, and addresses the study of film in Latin America in the context of great historical moments. The issues of race, gender, primitivism, Otherness, slavery, immigration, social change, and their underpinning ideologies, inspire the presentations of these films. In Spanish. This book contains five black and white photographs and five color photographs.