%0 Journal Article
%T Puerto Rican sugar: the transnational film career of Mapy Cort¨¦s
%A Roberto Carlos Ortiz
%J Centro Journal
%D 2005
%I 
%X This article charts the movie star text of Puerto Rican entertainer Mapy Cort¨¦s (1910 1998), one of the top boxoffice attractions of Mexican cinema in the 1940s, who made a quick trip to Hollywood in 1942 and returned to Puerto Rico in the 1950s and 60s to collaborate in the nascent national television and cinema. By charting the vedette s on-screen image, especially her embodiment of Puerto Rico, the tropics or Pan-Americanism, the article analyzes the racial and gender norms governing transnational Puerto Rican stars prior to better known Latina performers such as Rita Moreno or Jennifer L¨®pez.
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