Editors’ Introduction

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Editorial| October 01 2021 Editors’ Introduction: Centering Latinas in Film and Media History Mary Beltrán; Mary Beltrán Mary Beltrán is an associate professor of Radio-Television-Film and an affiliate of Mexican American & Latina/o Studies and of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research is focused on U.S. television and film history, with an emphasis on Latina/o representation and authorship. She is the author of Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meanings of Film and TV Stardom (University of Illinois Press, 2009), co-editor (with Camilla Fojas) of Mixed Race Hollywood (NYU Press, 2008), and author of the forthcoming Latino TV: A History (NYU Press, 2022). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Mirasol Enríquez Mirasol Enríquez Mirasol Enríquez is the Director of the Moody College's Latino Media Arts and Studies program, and an Assistant Professor of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Her scholarship focuses on U.S.-based Latina filmmakers and media production culture, and her work has appeared in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. As a film and media scholar and an arts administrator, she has devoted her career to community building through film and the arts. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Feminist Media Histories (2021) 7 (4): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2021.7.4.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mary Beltrán, Mirasol Enríquez; Editors’ Introduction: Centering Latinas in Film and Media History. Feminist Media Histories 1 October 2021; 7 (4): 1–6. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2021.7.4.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentFeminist Media Histories Search Latinas have played significant roles as content creators, media professionals, performers, and audience members throughout the development of film, television, radio, commercial music, and digital media culture in the United States and throughout the Latina/o/x diaspora. However, as is the case for the subjects of feminist media studies more generally, the histories of influential Latinas are rarely encountered in film and media scholarship. Similarly, they have often been overlooked by scholars who aim to recover the histories of women in film and media. Scholarship that takes “the history and experiences of Latinas and the media seriously,” as Angharad Valdivia notes, participates in an inherently feminist intervention.1 In this regard, it is thanks to scholars such as Valdivia, Rosa Linda Fregoso, Frances Aparicio, Ana M. López, Michelle Habell-Pallán, and Frances Negrón-Muntaner, each of whom made great strides in bringing... © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California2021 You do not currently have access to this content.