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Movie Theater as a Site of Violence II

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For audiences of color in the United States during the Second World War, exclusion from American culture was not only apparent on the screen through absences of representation, or on the flip side of that, by the presence of grotesque caricatures in films. Exclusion was also manifested physically and violently as spectators were literally dragged from their potential seats of identification and beaten on the city’s public streets during this week in June 1943. Ejected from theaters, they were thrown out onto the streets of Alpine, Figueroa, Hill and Broadway. What did the experience of this disruption of cinematic spectatorship feel like? What are the possible affective dimensions of representing this traumatic scene in Chicano history?  While many of the brief nonfiction accounts I have highlighted here from historians, scholars, and journalists, frame their stories’ identification with the young Mexican American men primarily through violent moments of victimization, fictional examples from literary and cinematic forms, as well as film studies scholarship, allows for more sustained engagement not only with character development, but with themes that examine the nature of identification as it is enacted inside and outside of the movie theater. 
 

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