On (Dang) Quesadillas and Nachos: Mexicans, Mexican-Americans, and Religion in the Films of Jared Hess

Across his cinema, the US, Mormon director Jared Hess has represented the Mexican Other in ambiguous ways that affirm the humanity of the US's southern neighbors while at the same time signaling them as irreconcilably different from—and perhaps simpler than—their North American counterparts. Th...

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Published in:Journal for religion, film and media
Main Author: Dalton, David S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Institut f. Fundamentaltheologie [2019]
In: Journal for religion, film and media
Year: 2019, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 141-165
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Napoleon Dynamite / Nacho Libre / Chicanos (Motif) / Mormon Church
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
KBQ North America
KBR Latin America
Further subjects:B Book of Mormon
B Lamanite
B Mormon studies
B Immigration
B Napoleon Dynamite
B Nacho Libre
B race and religion
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