Sonic Cinema: The Making of Selena
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09/26/18 • 26 min
All episodes of Hollywood in Color are heavily researched. Here are the major sources used for this episode:
Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory by Deborah Paredez (book)
Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom by Priscilla Ovalle (book)
Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda (Chapter 5: Giving us that Brown Soul) by Deborah Vargas (book)
From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Film and Popular Culture (Chapter 7: The New Wave of Border Crossing) by Tara Lockhart (book)
Selena's Good Buy: Texas Mexicans, History, and Selena Meet Transnational Capitalism by Raul Coronado Jr. (article)
Jennifer as Selena: Rethinking Latinidad in Media and Popular Culture by Frances R. Aparicio (article)
The Chicana/Latina Dyad, or Identity and Perception by Alicia Gaspar de Alba (article)
Jennifer's Butt by Frances Negron-Muntaner (article)
Brain, Brow, and Booty: Latina Iconicity in U.S. Popular Culture by Isabel Molina Guzman and Angharad N. Valdivia (article)
Meet Danielle Camastra, the Woman Who Almost Played Selena Quintanilla by Kiko Martinez (remezcla.com)
Anything for Selenas: How a Teenage Fan Convinced her Dad to Make the Selena Movie by Vanessa Erazo (remezcla.com)
Music used in this episode (listed in order heard):
Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon (marmosetmusic.com)
Amarilla Maracuyá by Animal Chuki (marmosetmusic.com)
Guiton Sketch by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Guitare 1 by Monplaisir (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
Maree by Kai Engel (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
Accralate by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Sancho Panza Gets a Latte by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Media Cited:
Selena National Casting Call, San Antonio — Raw footage (1996) by Fred Miller (texasarchive.org)
Cumbia beats taken from Latin Beats: The Cumbia Style on Drums I Reverb Drum Lesson with Daniel Villarreal by Reverb.com (youtube.com)
Techno Cumbia (album version) & Techno Cumbia (remix) by Selena
Eva Longoria at the Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony by Variety.com (youtube.com)
Archival news footage from Channel 6 News uploaded by Joseph97 (youtube.com)
Archival new footage from CBS 4 News Rio Grande Valley uploaded by author (youtube.com)
clip from Selena (1997)
Amor Prohibido (album version) by Selena
Selena Amor Prohibido (Acapella) published by TheAcapellas (youtube.com)
*Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research
Hollywood in Color artwork designed by Shelby Moring
Follow Hollywood in Color on all social media @hwoodincolor and visit the show at hollywoodincolor.org
All episodes of Hollywood in Color are heavily researched. Here are the major sources used for this episode:
Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory by Deborah Paredez (book)
Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom by Priscilla Ovalle (book)
Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda (Chapter 5: Giving us that Brown Soul) by Deborah Vargas (book)
From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Film and Popular Culture (Chapter 7: The New Wave of Border Crossing) by Tara Lockhart (book)
Selena's Good Buy: Texas Mexicans, History, and Selena Meet Transnational Capitalism by Raul Coronado Jr. (article)
Jennifer as Selena: Rethinking Latinidad in Media and Popular Culture by Frances R. Aparicio (article)
The Chicana/Latina Dyad, or Identity and Perception by Alicia Gaspar de Alba (article)
Jennifer's Butt by Frances Negron-Muntaner (article)
Brain, Brow, and Booty: Latina Iconicity in U.S. Popular Culture by Isabel Molina Guzman and Angharad N. Valdivia (article)
Meet Danielle Camastra, the Woman Who Almost Played Selena Quintanilla by Kiko Martinez (remezcla.com)
Anything for Selenas: How a Teenage Fan Convinced her Dad to Make the Selena Movie by Vanessa Erazo (remezcla.com)
Music used in this episode (listed in order heard):
Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon (marmosetmusic.com)
Amarilla Maracuyá by Animal Chuki (marmosetmusic.com)
Guiton Sketch by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Guitare 1 by Monplaisir (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
Maree by Kai Engel (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
Accralate by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Sancho Panza Gets a Latte by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Media Cited:
Selena National Casting Call, San Antonio — Raw footage (1996) by Fred Miller (texasarchive.org)
Cumbia beats taken from Latin Beats: The Cumbia Style on Drums I Reverb Drum Lesson with Daniel Villarreal by Reverb.com (youtube.com)
Techno Cumbia (album version) & Techno Cumbia (remix) by Selena
Eva Longoria at the Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony by Variety.com (youtube.com)
Archival news footage from Channel 6 News uploaded by Joseph97 (youtube.com)
Archival new footage from CBS 4 News Rio Grande Valley uploaded by author (youtube.com)
clip from Selena (1997)
Amor Prohibido (album version) by Selena
Selena Amor Prohibido (Acapella) published by TheAcapellas (youtube.com)
*Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research
Hollywood in Color artwork designed by Shelby Moring
Follow Hollywood in Color on all social media @hwoodincolor and visit the show at hollywoodincolor.org
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Hattie McDaniel: The End
All episodes of Hollywood in Color are heavily researched. Here are the major sources used for this episode:
Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood (book) by Jill Watts
Hattie: The Life of Hattie McDaniel (book) by Carlton Jackson
Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era (book) by Ellen Scott
Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from WWII to the Civil Rights Era (book) by Thomas Cripps
Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era (book) by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff
Beulah and the Moynihan Report (article) by Gerald R. Butters
From Blackface to Beulah: Subtle Subversion in Early Black Sitcoms (article) by Mack Scott
Race, Class, and Gender in Beulah and Bernie Mac (article) by Angela Nelson
Star Dances: African-American Constructions of Stardom, 1925-1960 (book chapter) by Arthur Knight
Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films (books) by Donald Bogle
Music used in this episode (listed in order heard):
Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon (marmosetmusic.com)
Bummin on Tremolo by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Love Her by Loyalty Freak Music (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
Comic Plodding by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Nostalgic Piano by Rafael Krux (freepd.com) — Public Domain
Remember the Time We Used to Play by Kumiko (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
Ave Marimba by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
The Boats We've Been On by smallertide (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
Danse Morialta by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Porch Blues by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Pepper's Theme (full mix) by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Steps by Sunne (marmosetmusic.com)
Media Cited:
Clips from various Academy Award speeches (youtube.com)
*Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research
Hollywood in Color artwork designed by Shelby Moring
Follow Hollywood in Color on all social media @hwoodincolor and visit the show at hollywoodincolor.org
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Sonic Cinema: The Making of The Bodyguard
This is episode 2 of Sonic Cinema: a series looking at a few starring history’s most iconic musicians. Today — The Making of The Bodyguard.
All episodes of Hollywood in Color are heavily researched. Here are the major sources used for this episode:
Whitney directed by Kevin Macdonald (documentary)
Whitney: "Can I Be Me?" directed by Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal (documentary)
Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 by Alex Lubin (book)
Interracial Romance as a Staged Spectacle in "Made in America," "Bringing Down the House" and "Guess Who" by Helene Charlery (article)
Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema (Chapter 8: Music, Video, Cinema: Singers and Movie Stars) by Yvonne Tasker
Whitney Houston 1963-2012 by Robin Roberts (article)
Nationality, Race, and Gender on the American Pop Charts: What happened in the '90s? by Alan Wells (article)
Whitney is Every Woman: Cultural Politics and the Pop Star by Marla Shelton (article)
Divafication: The deification of modern female pop stars by Linda Lister (article)
A Vision of Love: An Etiquette of Vocal Ornamentation in African-American Popular Ballads of the Early 1990s by Richard Rischar (article)
‘Not black enough’: the identity crisis that haunted Whitney Houston by Steve Rose (TheGuardian.com)
Remember When Whitney Houston Got Booed for Being Too White? by Rich Juzwiak (Gawker.com)
The Two Voices of Whitney Houston by Doreen St. Félix (NewYorker.com)
The Complexities of Whitney Houston in “Whitney” by Michael Schulman (NewYorker.com)
The Soul of Whitney by Joy Duckett Cain (Essence Magazine, December 1990) transcribed by ClassicWhitney.com
Whitney Houston talks about the men in her life — and the Rumors, Lies and Insults that are the High Price of Fame by Lynn Norment (Ebony Magazine, May 1991) archived by Google Books
Sing to Me: My Story of Making Music, Finding Magic, and Searching for Who's Next by LA Reid (book)
Diana Ross: A Biography by J. Randy Taraborrelli (book)
Erased Onscreen: Where Are All the Interracial Couples? by Kevin Noble Maillard (NYTimes.com)
Music used in this episode (listed in order heard):
Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon (marmosetmusic.com)
Waltz Opus Posthume by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)
Toothless Slope by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)
In the Back Room by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)
Spins and Never Falls by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)
Tyrano Theme by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)
White Limit by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)
Faster Faster Brighter by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)
Sunday Lights by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)
Destiny Awaits (Instrumental) by Pat Daugherty (marmosetmusic.com)
Media Cited:
clip from Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (1967) directed by Stanley Kramer
You Give Good Love by Whitney Houston
Saving All My Love For You by Whitney Houston
How Will I Know by Whitney Houston
Greatest Love of All by Whitney Houston
I Wanna Dance With Somebody by Whitney Houston
Didn’t We Almost Have it All by Whitney Houston
So Emotional by Whitney Houston
Where Do Broken Hearts Go by Whitney Houston
Best Female Single '89 from Soul Train Awards uploaded by beyonceitis (youtube.com)
Interlude: Pledge by Janet Jackson
Rhythm Nation by Janet Jackson
Rhythmless Nation from In Living Color uploaded by Mr. Wonder (youtube.com)
I'm Your Baby Tonight by Whitney Houston
Arsenio Hall interviews Whitney Houston from The Arsenio Hall Show [aired January 4, 1991] uploaded by ZanDTV (youtube.com)
The Bodyguard (1992) - Interview - Part 1 from MTV's The Big Picture uploaded by mariah (youtube.com)
I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston
David Foster Story behind Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You from ABC News Nightline [aired February 2012] uploaded by vSpirit2 (youtube.com)
clip from The Bodyguard (1992)
*Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research
Hollywood in Color artwork designed by Shelby Moring
Follow Hollywood in Color on all social media @hwoodincolor and visit the show at hollywoodincolor.org
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