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The gringo in Mañanaland

A montage of U.S.-produced films about Latin America, from silent films through 1995 television news, including corporate videos, around the themes of U.S. discovery of a tropical paradise with friendly native women, of money to be made, of local bandits and the need for U.S. troops.

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  • ""Since the turn of the century, popular media in the U.S. have promoted a stereotyped image of Latin America in order to justify the concept of U.S. dominance in the hemisphere. The Gringo in Mañanaland uses travelogues, dramatic films, industrial films, newsreels, military footage, geographical textbook illustrations, and political cartoons to take a detailed look at United States media representations of Latin America."--Video Data Bank web site."
  • ""This one hour video is a compilation of industrial, instructional, anthropological and Hollywood films which have Latin America as a subject. The film charts a century of stereotyping and lies through a cinema of Latin lovers, thieves, terrorists, ignorant peasants, and, of course, heroic Gringo saviors. The film is an exhilarating investigation into the way in which successive U.S administrations have manipulated the politics and economies of Latin America with the help of motion pictures. "This production is an archivist's dream." says Robert Rosen, UCLA Film Archives. Jane Gaines: "A masterpiece of editing and political analysis." The film ran into trouble with the Reagan administration funding authorities, because, after all, we must not forget that some governments do not like history to be retold."--Conteneur."
  • "A montage of U.S.-produced films about Latin America, from silent films through 1995 television news, including corporate videos, around the themes of U.S. discovery of a tropical paradise with friendly native women, of money to be made, of local bandits and the need for U.S. troops."
  • "A montage of U.S.-produced films about Latin America, from silent films through 1995 television news, including corporate videos, around the themes of U.S. discovery of a tropical paradise with friendly native women, of money to be made, of local bandits and the need for U.S. troops."@en
  • "This film is a look at U.S. media representations of Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean and Latin America. Since the turn of the century, popular media in the U.S. have promoted stereotyped images of Latin America in order to justify the concept of U.S. dominance in the hemisphere."
  • ""How we view Latin America cannot help but be affected by how it has been projected in film since the turn of the century. Filmmaker DeeDee Halleck has compiled the essential Latin American stereotypes into a documentary that is a comedy, a melodrama, an adventure story and finally, a tragic farce. Clips from over eighty dramatic and industrial films are arranged to lay out the essential myths: the hero discovers paradise and bananas, he has a problem with bandits and women, he calls in the marines, the bandits cooperate, and the good neighbors are happy. These images shaped not only how Americans viewed Latin Americans, but through exportation, also affected how Latin Americans view themselves. Through juxtaposition and irony, the film demonstrates cultural imperialism at work. Halleck has been called 'the godmother of the alternative political video.' Along with being a professor of communications at the University of California at San Diego, she's also the producer of Paper Tiger Television, the legendary national public access series"--Deedeehalleck.org."@en

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  • "Documentary films"@en
  • "Feature films"@en
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  • "The gringo in Mañanaland"@en
  • "Gringo in Mananaland"
  • "The gringo in mañanaland a musical"@en
  • "The gringo in mañanaland a musical"
  • "The gringo in mañanaland"
  • "The Gringo in mañanaland"
  • "The gringo in mañana-land a musical"@en

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