Please, Don't Bury Me Alive! Efrain Gutierrez [videorecording]=

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Efrain Gutierrez

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TextLanguage: English, Spanish Summary language: English Original language: Spanish Subtitle language: English Series: David W. Foster Collection | UCLA Chicano Cinema and Media Art Series ; Vol. 6Publication details: United States Chicano Arts Film Enterprises 2007Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 81 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 inLOC classification:

PN1997 .P543 1976

Summary: From case cover: This independent film, a slice-of-barrio life that was shot and shown in South Texas, outperformed All the President's Men in some small towns, while it single-handedly broke Mexico's monopoly over the Spanish-language theaters in the United States. The film inspired an independent film movement in Mexico, where the state controlled the industry, and among Chicano filmmakers in the United States, who further refined Gutiérrez's successful grassroots marketing strategy. The film is important as an instance of regional filmmaking, as a bicultural and bilingual narrative, and as a precedent that expanded the way that films were produced in two nations. It is a compelling film about the dilemmas facing a young Chicano in the spring of 1972 amid the Chicano Movement, one made on a dream and a shoestring! In this respect, Gutiérrez is a pivotal figure in the same way as Oscar Micheaux, who directed "race movies" for black audiences from the 1920s to the 1940s.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
DVD - Video	SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-D: DVD Cabinet D	PN1997 .P543 1976	Available	English and Spanish audio. Optional English subtitles.		001667

From case cover:
This independent film, a slice-of-barrio life that was shot and shown in South Texas, outperformed All the President's Men in some small towns, while it single-handedly broke Mexico's monopoly over the Spanish-language theaters in the United States. The film inspired an independent film movement in Mexico, where the state controlled the industry, and among Chicano filmmakers in the United States, who further refined Gutiérrez's successful grassroots marketing strategy. The film is important as an instance of regional filmmaking, as a bicultural and bilingual narrative, and as a precedent that expanded the way that films were produced in two nations. It is a compelling film about the dilemmas facing a young Chicano in the spring of 1972 amid the Chicano Movement, one made on a dream and a shoestring! In this respect, Gutiérrez is a pivotal figure in the same way as Oscar Micheaux, who directed "race movies" for black audiences from the 1920s to the 1940s.

DVD video; Dolby Digital; monaural; NTSC; Regions 1-8; 4:3 fullscreen.

English and Spanish audio. Optional English subtitles.

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