Mediating Frida: Negotiating discourses of Latina/o authenticity in global media representations of ethnic identity

Critical Studies in Media Communication

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 232-251

  Guzmán, Isabel Molina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Institute of Communications Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Commodification; Discourse; Ethnicity; Film; Frida; Latina o; Latina o News

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748640388     PISSN: 15295036     EISSN: 14795809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07393180600800841     Document Type: Article

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