Film 101: Latin Numbers — ‘The Gang’s All Here’

Date
Sep 15, 2020, 7:30 pm9:00 pm
Location
via Zoom

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The Gang’s All Here

Directed and choreographed by Busby Berkeley, The Gang’s All Here (1943) is considered a camp classic, and is noted for its use of Technicolor musical numbers with fruit hats and as a star vehicle for Carmen Miranda. The night before his deployment in World War II, a wealthy heir falls in love with a beautiful cabaret singer. But, his engagement to a family friend complicates the blossoming relationship.

Film 101: Latin Numbers

The Princeton Garden Theatre presents a special 4-part Film 101 seminar with Princeton professor Brian Herrera presented in conjunction with his course “Latinx Musicals on Stage & Screen.” Herrera has selected four films that explore the way in which Latino actors on the 20th-century stage and screen communicated and influenced American ideas about race and ethnicity. Watch the films at your convenience, and then join a moderated conversation on Zoom about these films and the cultural questions they raise.

Registration limited to 50 participants. $20 general admission; free for Princeton Garden Theatre members.

Brian E. Herrera

Brian Eugenio Herrera is, by turns, a writer, teacher and scholar — presently based in New Jersey, but forever rooted in New Mexico. His work, whether academic or artistic, examines the history of gender, sexuality and race within and through U.S. popular performance. He is author of The Latina/o Theatre Commons 2013 National Convening: A Narrative Report (HowlRound, 2015). His book Latin Numbers: Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance (Michigan, 2015) was awarded the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism and received an honorable mention for the John W. Frick Book Award from the American Theatre and Drama Society.

Sponsors
  • Princeton Garden Theatre
  • Program in Latino Studies
  • Lewis Center for the Arts
  • Mercer County Cultural & Heritage Commission
  • Vesta Fund