Description
Please type a two-page, double space, with one inch margins summary and experience of
a Chicana/o novel, film/documentary, play, event, protest, or art exhibit
4. In order to receive full credit:
a. you must identify the novel, film/documentary, play, event or art exhibit in the
introduction. This includes the date, location, time and short description of your topic.
b. explain what you learned, this does not mean you give a play by play of an entire
book, documentary, book
c. how it relates to the course, (Chicano)
d. and your experience/reaction.
Explanation & Answer
Attached.
Chicano movie, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez.
[NAME]
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The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez is a 1982 film produced by a Latin American film
foundation, the Criterion Collection that narrate the true story of nominal turn of a century
farmer who was arrested and yard birded of murder, a crime that was not committed by him, due
to incomplete translation. This film is Moctezuma Esparza’s brainchild. It being a leading fig in
1970s in Chicano cultural circles, it is seen to have gained visibility due to the identity of
Chicano, an American Latin descent. Edward James Olmos, a public eye Latino actor took the
role of a farmer in the film as Gregorio Cortez.
There is a mistaken translation case of the farmer Gregorio Cortez who...