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Luis Valdez

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Valdez, Luis (1940—) Summary
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Luis Valdez is considered to be the father of Chicano theater. He is the instigator of the contemporary Chicano theatrical movement and its most outstanding playwright. Valdez has distinguished himself as an actor, director, playwright, and film maker....
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Luis Valdez Information
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Luis Valdez (born June 26, 1940) is an American playwright, writer and film director. He is regarded as the father of Chicano theater in the United...


News and Journals
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Proceso
Luis Valdez viene a preparar locaciones para Las dos Fridas.(TT: Luis Valdez is here preparing the sets for Frida's movies.)(Entrevista)
11/05/2000: 2,401 words, approx. 8 pages
Con Jennifer López, su socia en la cinta Se encuentra entusiasmado el cineasta Luis Valdez: por fin filmará en México su polémico proyecto sobre Frida Kahlo, basado en el libro El pincel de la angustia, de Marcha Zamora. Según Valdez--llamado "El padre...
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Journal of Popular Film and Television
Brechtian and Aztec violence in Valdez's 'Zoot Suit.' (playwright Luis Valdez's musical play)(The Shows of Violence)
06/22/1998: 6,331 words, approx. 21 pages
The bilingual musical play 'Zoot Suit,' whose 1981 movie version was directed by playwright Luis Valdez, dwells on Latin American immigrants' experience in the US in the 1940s. Through the Brechtian techniques that the play made liberal use of, the modern influence of European...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Jorge A. Huerta
15,226 words, approx. 51 pages
In this essay, Huerta examines the Chicano experience depicted in four plays by Valdez: The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa, Bernabé, Dark Root of a Scream, and Zoot Suit.
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Interview with Valdez (1988)
7,105 words, approx. 24 pages
An interview with Luis Valdez, in In Their Own Words: Contemporary American Playwrights, by David Savran, Theatre Communications Group, 1988, pp. 257-71. In the conversation below, Valdez discusses the development of his drama and the forces that have had an impact on his work.
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Interview by Luis Valdez with David Savran
6,622 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following interview, Valdez discusses his career as a playwright and the roles of politics and mysticism in his work.
 


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