Mary Beltrán

Associate Professor, Department of Communication Arts
Associate Professor, Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program
Affiliate, Women's Studies
*On leave 2009-2010*

• Ph.D. Radio-Television-Film. University of Texas at Austin, 2002
• M.S., Social Work. University of Wisconsin-Madsion, 1993

Specialization and Research Interests
Latino/a, mixed race, and other non-white participation and representation in U.S. film and televsion. Stardom and the construction of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. Hollywood film and U.S. television history and theory. Latino media production and media activism.

Selected Publications

• Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meanings of Film & TV Stardom. University of Illinois Press, August 2009.
• Mixed-Race Hollywood: Multiraciality in Film and Media Culture. Co-editor with Camilla Fojas. New York Univeristy Press, 2008.
• “When Dolores Del Rio Became Latina: Latino/a Stardom in Hollywood’s Transition to Sound.” Invited chapter in Latino/a Communication Studies Today, ed. Angharad Valdivia. New York: Peter Lang, 2008, 27-50.
• Rooting for Betty." FlowTV Vol. 5, Issue 4.
• "The New Hollywood Racelessness: Only the Fast Furious (and Multi-Racial) Will Survive." Cinema Journal 44:2, Winter 2005: 50-67.
• "Dolores Del Rio, the First 'Latino Invasion,' and Hollywood's Transition to Sound." Aztlan: The Journal of Chicago Studies 30:1, Winter 2005: 55-86.
• "The Hollywood Latina Body as Site of Social Struggle: Media Constructions of Stardom and Jennifer Lopez's 'Cross-over Butt.'" The Quarterly Review of Film and Video 19.1 (January 2002): 71-86.
• "Mas Macha: The New Latina Action Hero." In Action and Adventure Cinema, ed. Yvonne Tasker. London: Routledge: 2004. 186-200.
• "Commemoration as Crossover: 'Remembering' Selena. "In Afterlife as Afterimage: Popular Music and Posthumous Fame, eds. Steve Jones and Joli Jensen. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2005. 81-96.

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