Jennifer Lopez is reconnecting with her action film roots, starring in the new Netflix film "The Mother." In it, she plays the titular character, a veteran and expert sniper who gives up her daughter at birth in an effort to protect her. When forces later threaten 12-year-old Zoe, Lopez jumps into action, doing everything she can to keep her daughter safe.
Dr. Frances Negrón-Muntaner, a professor at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and of Latino media studies at Columbia University, positions "The Mother" as part of how Lopez is evolving her image. Dr. Negrón-Muntaner identified to Popsugar the three stages of J Lo. In the first, "[Lopez] was doing the fight over the body beautiful, [insisting that] a woman with these proportions, a woman that's Latina, and who's racialized that way, and seen that way, can be beautiful." Think action films like "Out of Sight," Lopez's breakthrough role in the "Selena" biopic,...
Dr. Frances Negrón-Muntaner, a professor at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and of Latino media studies at Columbia University, positions "The Mother" as part of how Lopez is evolving her image. Dr. Negrón-Muntaner identified to Popsugar the three stages of J Lo. In the first, "[Lopez] was doing the fight over the body beautiful, [insisting that] a woman with these proportions, a woman that's Latina, and who's racialized that way, and seen that way, can be beautiful." Think action films like "Out of Sight," Lopez's breakthrough role in the "Selena" biopic,...
- 5/12/2023
- by Cristina Escobar
- Popsugar.com
Eva Longoria's "Devious Maids" stirred up the Latinx community when it premiered nearly a decade ago. Here was this big, English-language cable show starring five Latinas but as the title reveals, they were all maids. So, did the Lifetime series replicate or challenge the stereotype that Latinas exist solely to serve better-off, Anglo families? The community hotly debated the show before it even came out, sounding off in the popular press and elsewhere.
"When you looked at the promotional materials that Lifetime put out for 'Devious Maids,' the actresses playing those roles were very sexualized in terms of their dress and in terms of their posture . . . And then also the maid again - why do we want to reify that?"
"It was largely dismissed for two reasons: the promotional materials and also the name of the show itself," says Dr. Jillain Báez, Associate Professor in the department of Africana,...
"When you looked at the promotional materials that Lifetime put out for 'Devious Maids,' the actresses playing those roles were very sexualized in terms of their dress and in terms of their posture . . . And then also the maid again - why do we want to reify that?"
"It was largely dismissed for two reasons: the promotional materials and also the name of the show itself," says Dr. Jillain Báez, Associate Professor in the department of Africana,...
- 11/29/2022
- by Cristina Escobar
- Popsugar.com
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