Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Recreation Management and Youth Leadership, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-135). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 151-168).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-310). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-310). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 197-201). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2005. / Supervisor: William Moore. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis advisor: Bernard O'Brien / This study investigated factors which influenced stable marriages among twelve Mexican American, working class, Catholic couples from central Texas who had been married at least twenty years, spoke English, and whose youngest child was a minimum of 18 years of age. Each participant was interviewed separately in a retrospective, semi-structured interview that covered selected factors from three different marital stages: 1) initial attraction, early marriage and birth of first child, 2) child-rearing years, and 3) post child-rearing years. The influences of culture, religion, values, finances, and the family of origin were explored to determine their impact on marital stability. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 1994. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Education.

This thesis examines constructions of Chicano (or Mexican American) identity in literature and film. I explore how writers and filmmakers negotiate the dominance of Hollywood models over the culture. In Chapter One, I argue that literature gives way to film in articulations of Chicano identity; Gonzales and Anzald6a use cinematic imagery and Castillo's short story adopts the characteristics of film. Chicano documentaries were made to correct Hollywood's negative images of the culture. In Chapter Two I study Luis Valdez's Zoo! Suit (1981), a film that celebrates the Chicano icon of the pachuco by subverting the Hollywood musical genre. Chapter Three considers two films by Lourdes Portillo in which Chicano culture is scrutinised through the frames of ethnography and film noir. In Chapter Four I examine John Sayles' revisionist Western, Lone Star and the extent to which history dominates the present in Texas. Robert Rodriguez's Mexican action heroes and his ethnic humour are the subject of Chapter Five. Chapter Six examines two films by Allison Anders in the light of her self-confessed obsession with Chicano culture. In conclusion I argue that Anders' autobiographical character in Gas, Food, Lodgi»g (1991), articulates Anglo anxieties about identity, bringing the trajectory around full circle.