Bücher von Alfred Richard

Each entry includes production information, an annotation detailing the film's Hispanic significance, and references to additional materials. The volume concludes with an alphabetical index of film titles, an index of actors and actresses, an index of place names, a general subject index, and an index of songs.

The role of censorship, the Production Code Administration, the Motion Picture Society of the Americas, the Latin American market, and Hollywood's version of Hispanic history are fully covered. The Black Legend of Hispanic barbarity has existed in literature since the sixteenth century.

An attempt to show how the film industry has homogenised the Latin, the Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Mexican, South American and Caribbean into an ethnic enemy, whose negative traits and character have been conditioned by their national origins; and then has profited from this.