Latinx ciné in the twenty-first century edited by Frederick Luis Aldama.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969- editor.

Series:

Latinx pop culture.

Latinx pop culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic Americans in motion pictures--History--21st century.

Hispanic Americans in motion pictures.

Hispanic Americans in the motion picture industry--History--21st century.

Hispanic Americans in the motion picture industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (521 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2019.

Summary:

"A collection of essays that focus on Latinx films in the twenty-first century. It looks at film over a wide variety of genres and their historical, political, and cultural contexts, and considers how production techniques depict the Latinx experience. And it discusses non-Latinx filmmakers who complicate and enrich our understanding of the Latinx experience"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Series

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Foreword. Bearing Witness: A Latinx Filmmaker's Journey / Paul Espinosa

Introduction. Latinx Ciné: Filmmaking, Production,and Consumption in the Twenty-First Century / Frederick Luis Aldama

PART I. THE QUESTION OF TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LATINX CINÉ

1. What Is Latinx in Today's Documentary Filmscape? / Debra A. Castillo

2. Pantelion Films and the Latinx Spanish-Language Film Marketplace / Henry Puente

3. Reframing the Border in Contemporary Mexican American Documentary / Monica Hanna

4. Serious Docu-Games: Empathy in Action at the Virtual Border / Rebecca A. Sheehan

PART II. REFRAMING AND CENTER-STAGING LATINX NONFICTION FLICKS

5. Digitized Identidad: Color, Body, and the Tension of DVD-Constructed Chicanx Heroes / Samuel Saldívar III

6. Salsa on Film: (Corporate) Stars, Local Communities, and Global Audiences, from Our Latin Thing to El Cantante / Nikolina Dobreva and Enrique García

PART III. TOWARD A BORDERLAND CINÉ OF PRECARITY AND SITUATED EXCESS

7. On the Border Between Migration and Horror: Rendering Border Violence Strange in Jonás Cuarón's Desierto / Lee Bebout and Clarissa Goldsmith

8. Invisible Immigrants: A Better Life and the Cinematic Undocumented / Desirée J. Garcia

9. Ex-Voto #7: Print Culture and the Creation of an Alternative Latinidad in the Work of Jim Mendiola / Ariana Ruiz

10. The Good, Bad, and the Messy: Michael Peña's Browning of the Twenty-First-Century Silver Screen / Frederick Luis Aldama and Carlos Gabriel Kelly

11. Ethnic Avengers: Machete, Django, and the Uncertain Futures of Race and Immigration in the United States / Juan J. Alonzo

PART IV. LATINX FUTURITIES

12. Border Securities, Drone Cultures, and Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer / Camilla Fojas.

13. Techno/Memo: The Politics of Cultural Memory in Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer / J. V. Miranda

14. Digital Rasquachismo: Alex Rivera's Multimedia Storytelling, Humor, and Transborder Latinx Futurity / Jennifer M. Lozano

15. Extra Terrestres and the Politics of Scientific Realism / Matthew David Goodwin

PART V. SUPERHEROIC LATINXS

16. LatinX-Men: Logan's Undocumented Voices Speak / Jorge Santos

17. Laura Kinney as X-treme Niña: Monstrosity and Citizenship in Marvel's Logan / Danielle Alexis Orozco

PART VI. PIXELATED BROWNS

18. Very ¡MACHO! Sonic Legacies of Mexican Animated Villains / Sara Veronica Hinojos

19. The Best Mexican Is a (Day of the) Dead Mexican: Representing Mexicanness in U.S. Animated Films / Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez

20. (Re)Animating the Dead: Memory, Music, and Divine Justice in Coco / John D. "Rio" Riofrio

21. "There Is No 'I' in Trollhunters": Gendered and Collective Heroism in Guillermo del Toro's Multimedial Saga / Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou

PART VII. TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY ENGENDERINGS OF LATINX CINÉ

22. Latinas in Biographical Film: Analyzing the Cultivation of a Genealogy of Latina Feministas in the United States / Valentina Montero Román

23. Impossible Mission: The Queer Geographies of Peter Bratt's La Mission / Richard T. Rodríguez

24. Not-So-Great Expectations: Challenging Gender/Ethnic Roles and Achievement in Latinx Sports Films / Mauricio Espinoza

Twenty-First-Century Latinx Ciné: A Coda / Rosa-Linda Fregoso

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8165-4049-7

OCLC:

1119617265