In Chicanos and Film, Chon A. Noriega has gathered the work of scholars who have been instrumental in the development f Chicano film studies. The contributors explore Chicano representation in both Hollywood and Mexican cinema and the resistance encountered within studio production, the press, and countercinema. Ultimately, Chicanos and Film offers a provocative examination of the historic, textual, and critical issues at the nexus of Chicano studies and film studies, brilliantly revealing how film illuminates social history and how artifacts of expressive culture draw their determinate shape from social and political realities.