RESCUED FROM AMNESIA: POLITICAL AFTERLIVES OF THE 1980S CHICANO WAVE.

The article focuses on how films such as "The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez" and "The Milagro Beanfield War" recast the Chicano community's relation to land access and economic mobility through a class-based, decolonial lens, which was heavily shaped by these communistic elements. It mentions abundance of scholarship focuses on the activist origins of Chicano cinema, the scale of Marxism's influence on this cinematic movement has often remained in obscurity.