Harvey-Kattou, L. 2018. Performing for Hollywood: Coloniality and the Tourist Image in Esteban Ramírez’s Caribe (2004). Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas. 15 (2), pp. 249-266. https://doi.org/10.1386/slac.15.2.249_1
| Title | Performing for Hollywood: Coloniality and the Tourist Image in Esteban Ramírez’s Caribe (2004) |
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| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Harvey-Kattou, L. |
| Abstract | This article problematizes US-Costa Rican cultural and ideological relations through an analysis of the film Caribe / Caribbean (2004) by Esteban Ramírez, positing that the film unconsciously invites an international audience to colonize it via the tourist gaze. Beginning by considering Ramírez’s anti-imperialist stance within the film’s plot which underscores the sovereignty of the Central American nation, I argue that these aims are undone through the exoticization of space and place. This article therefore goes on to analyse the ways in which the tropical image of the nation is seen to be internalized by the film, as well as considering the hegemonic Hollywood tropes of ethnicity and gender which are mimicked and performed. |
| Keywords | Costa Rica Caribe Esteban Ramírez Tourist gaze Hollywood stereotypes Latino tropes |
| Journal | Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas |
| Journal citation | 15 (2), pp. 249-266 |
| ISSN | 2050-4837 |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publisher | Intellect |
| Accepted author manuscript | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1386/slac.15.2.249_1 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published in print | 01 Jun 2018 |
| Published | 11 Jul 2018 |