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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 Jenni

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Embodying Latinidad: An Overview -- Section One. Case Studies: Silent and Classic Film Era -- 1. Film Viewing in Latino Communities, 1896–1934: Puerto Rico as Microcosm -- 2. Lupe Vélez: Queen of the B's -- 3. Lupe Vélez Regurgitated: Cautionary, Indigestion-Causing Ruminations on "Mexicans" in "American" Toilets Perpetrated While Covetously Screening "Veronica" -- Section Two. Performing Bodies: Contemporary Film and Music Media -- 4. Celia's Shoes -- 5. Salma Hayek's Frida: Transnational Latina Bodies in Popular Culture -- 6. Is Penélope to J.Lo as Culture Is to Nature? Eurocentric Approaches to "Latin" Beauties -- 7. Jennifer Lopez: The New Wave of Border Crossing -- 8. "There's My Territory": Shakira Crossing Over -- 9. "Hey, Killer": The Construction of a Macho Latina, or the Perils and Enticements of Girlfight -- Section Three . Sensational Bodies: Discourses of Latina Femininity -- 10. On the Semiotics of Lorena Bobbit -- 11. Disorderly Bodies and Discourses of Latinidad in the Elián González Story -- 12. The Body in Question: The Latina Detective in the Lupe Solano Mystery Series -- 13. La Princesa Plástica: Hegemonic and Oppositional Representations of Latinidad in Hispanic Barbie -- 14. Chusmas, Chismes, y Escándalos: Latinas Talk Back to El Show de Cristina and Laura en América -- Contributors -- Index