When: Saturday, February 18, 2023, 1:30 p.m.
Where: The Autry Museum in Griffith Park, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA
Anthony Macías, author of Chicano-Chicana Americana, will introduce the film Broken Lance (1954), part of the What is a Western? Film Series. Macías will sign books after the screening.
About the book:
Chicano-Chicana Americana is a cultural history of Mexican Americans in film, television, and theater. Through biographical sketches of performers such as Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, and Lupe Ontiveros, this work asserts Mexican Americans’ proper place in the national narratives of our collective imaginary. Conveying a multicentered, polycultural America, this book shows us intriguing performers in bit parts who steal the scene and redefine what it means to be American.