Clara E. Rodriguez is associate professor of sociology at Fordham University.

• Introduction -- Part 1 Latinos on Television and in the News -- Out of the Picture: Hispanics in the Media -- Hispanic Voices -- Distorted Reality -- Part 2 The Silver Screen: Stories and Stereotypes -- Visual Retrospective -- Citizen Chicano: The Trials and Titillations of Ethnicity in the American Cinema, 1935-1992 -- Stereotyping in Films in Seneral and of the Hispanic in Particular -- Chicanas in Film -- From Assimilation to Annihilation -- West Side Story -- Keeping It Reel? Films of the 1980s and 1990s -- Part 3 Creating Alternative Images: "The Others" Present Themselves -- From the Margin to the Center -- Unofficial Stories -- Type and Stereotype: Chicano Images in Film -- Two Film Reviews -- Hispanic-Oriented Media -- Part 4 Strategies for Change -- Promoting Analytical and Critical Viewing -- Questions and Reflections About the Readings in This Book -- What We Can Do