Critical approaches to the films of Robert Rodriguez / edited by Frederick Luis Aldama ; afterword by Alvaro Rodriguez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rodriguez, Robert, 1968---Criticism and interpretation.

Rodriguez, Robert.

Rodriguez, Robert, 1968-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vi, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015.

Contents:

Rodriguez's cinema of possibilities: an introduction / Frederick Luis Aldama

Matters of mind and media. From El mariachi till spy kids? a cognitive approach / Sue J. Kim

You've come a long way, booger breath: Juni Cortez grows up in the Spy kids films / Phillip Serrato

Narrative theory, cognitive science, and Sin city: a case study. Painterly cinema: three minutes of Sin city / Patrick Colm Hogan

Sin city, style, and the status of noir / Emily R. Anderson

Sin city, hybrid media, and a cognitive narratology of multimodality / Erin E. Eighan

Aesthetic and ontological border crossings and borderlands. Intertextploitation and post-post-latinidad in Planet terror / Christopher González

Planet terror redux: miscegenation and family apocalypse / Enrique García

The border crossed us: Machete and the Latino threat narrative / Zachary Ingle

The development of social minds in the "Mexico trilogy" / James J. Donahue

It's a wrap. Tarantino & Rodriguez: a paradigm / Ilan Stavans

Five amigos crisscross borders on a road trip with Rodriguez / Frederick Luis Aldama, Samuel Saldívar, Christopher González, Sue J. Kim, and Camilla Fojas

Afterword: postproduction in Robert Rodriguez's "post-post-Latinidad" / Alvaro Rodriguez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780292763555

0292763557

9781477302408

1477302409

OCLC:

881720711