Hidden Chicano Cinema

"With clear and concise analysis, extensive archival work, and sound scholarship, Hidden Chicano Cinema makes a significant contribution to the field."

~María Herrera-Sobek, University of California, Santa Barbara

"Brilliantly exploring a century of narrative, documentary, and hybrid films set in the Southwest Borderlands, A. Gabriel Meléndez reveals the Chicano presence 'hidden' at the core of the American imagination."

~Chon Noriega, author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema

"Based on archival research, oral histories, and secondary literature, this book documents film and photographic representations of Mexican Americans in New Mexico from the late 19th century to the start of the 21st century. This book fills a significant gap in the literature on the region. Recommended."

~Choice

"Meléndez’s analytical investigation stands as a serious contribution to the scholarship of Borderlands film studies."

~American Studies

"Very interesting and insightful study. Melendez...is the first to provide a theoretical framework—proxemics—that illustrates how the image-making of the Borderlands changed from the early to the late twentieth century."

~New Mexico Historical Review