Latinos and narrative media : participation and portrayal / edited by Frederick Luis Aldama.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic Americans and mass media.

Hispanic Americans in mass media.

Hispanic Americans.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

xii, 301 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Bringing together 15 scholars of Latino popular culture, this book makes visible a range of material objects and intellectual products out there that capture the myriad and infinite experiences of Latinos. The contributors identify a contemporary scene whereby the massive presence of Latinos in the United States is actively shaping American culture. There are a multitude of narrative media forms created by and that feature Latinos in the twenty-first century. This proliferation of diverse media formats by and about Latinos extends into film, television, animated cartoons, comic books, Internet, and video games. Using the methods and theories of aural-visual studies (film, animation, and TV), visual-textual studies (comic books), and approaches that typify digital and Internet analyses, this volume captures in all its complexity and nuance this century of multimediated Latinos. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Border Genres...Borderlands

1 Border Media and New Spaces of Latinidad / Camilla Fojas Fojas, Camilla 35

2 Days of the (Un)Dead: Vampires, Zombies, and Other Forms of Chicano/a Horror in Film / Jesse Alemán Alemán, Jesse 49

3 Postmodern Guacamole: Lifting the Lid on El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera / Phillip Serrato Serrato, Phillip 71

4 Latino Media in a Digital Age / Randy Ontiveros Ontiveros, Randy 85

5 Tex[t]-Mex, Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America, 2.0 or "Narcissus Mexicanus": A Diary Chronicling the Transmogrifying Metamorphosis of a Mexican American's Neurosis from Psyche to Book to Museum and on to the Internet / William Anthony Nericcio Nericcio, William Anthony 91

6 Nacho Libre: Or the Inauthenticity of Rascuachismo / Ilan Stavans Stavans, Ilan 111

7 Illuminated Bodies: Kat Von D and the Borderlands of Tattoo Culture / Theresa N. Rojas Rojas, Theresa N. 117

Part II Transmedial...Transracial Crossings

8 Staking Out a Blatino Borderlands / Adilifu Nama Nama, Adilifu 131

9 Latina Ethnoracial Ambiguity in Postracial Television Narratives / Isabel Molina-Guzmán Molina-Guzmán, Isabel 143

10 Dirty, Stinking, Aliens: Latinos in Today's Sci-Fi Televisual Blueprints / Samuel Saldívar Saldívar, Samuel 161

11 Empathic Cross-Fires: Latinos in Bollywood...Bollywood in Latinolandia / Torsa Ghosal Ghosal, Torsa 173

Part III Matters of Form, Mind, and Audience

12 From El Mariachi to Spy Kids?: A Cognitive Approach / Sue J. Kim Kim, Sue J. 195

13 Latino Sci-Fi: Cognition and Narrative Design in Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer / Christopher González González, Christopher 211

14 Latino Comics: Javier Hernandez's El Muerto as an Allegory of Chicano Identity / David William Foster Foster, David William 225

15 Getting Your Mind/Body On: Latinos in Video Games / Frederick Luis Aldama Aldama, Frederick Luis 241.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

ISBN:

9781137366450

1137366451

OCLC:

845085678