Latinos and Narrative Media Participation and Portrayal

by Aldama, Frederick Luis

• ISBN13: 9781137366450
• ISBN10: 1137366451
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-11-07
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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.

Author Biography

Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor of English and Founder and Director of LASER/Latino & Latin American Space for Enrichment Research at the Ohio State University, USA. He is the editor of 5 collections of essays and author of 13 books, including: Your Brain on Latino Comics: From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez; The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature; Mex-Ciné: Mexican Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the 21st Century; and ¡Muy Pop: Conversations on Latino Pop Culture (co-authored with Ilan Stavans).

Table of Contents

Foreword: Confessions of a Multimediated Latino; Javier Hernandez
1. Multimediated Latinos in the 21st Century: An Introduction; Frederick Luis Aldama
PART I: BORDER GENRES...BORDERLANDS
2. Border Media and New Spaces of Latinidad; Camilla Fojas
3. Days of the (Un)Dead: Vampires, Zombies, and Other Forms of Chicano/a Horror in Film; Jesse Alemán
4. Postmodern Guacamole: Lifting the Lid on El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera; Phillip Serrato
5. Latino Media in a Digital Age; Randy Ontiveros
6. Tex[t]-Mex, Seductive Hallucinations of the 'Mexican' in America, 2.0: A Diary Chronicling the Transmogrifying Metamorphosis of a Neurosis from Book to Museum and on to the Internet; William Nericcio
7. Nacho Libre, or, The Inauthenticity of Rasquachismo Ilan Stavans Illuminated Bodies: Kat Von D and the Borderlands of Tattoo Culture; Theresa N. Rojas
PART II: TRANSMEDIAL...TRANSRACIAL CROSSINGS
8. Staking Out a Blatino Borderlands; Adilifu Nama
9. Latina Ethnoracial Ambiguity in Post-Racial Television Narratives; Isabel Molina-Guzmán
10. Unwanted Extraterrestrials...or Dirty, Stinking, Aliens: Latinos in Today's Sci-Fi Televisual Blueprints; Samuel Saldívar
11. Empathic Cross-fires: Latinos in Bollywood...Bollywood in Latinolandia; Torsa Ghosal
PART III: MATTERS OF FORM, MIND, AND AUDIENCE
12. From El Mariachi to Spy Kids?: A Cognitive Approach; Sue J. Kim
13. Latino Sci-Fi: Cognition and Narrative Design in Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer; Christopher González
14. Latino Comics: Javier Hernandez's El Muerto as an Allegory of Chicano Identity; David William Foster
15. Getting Your Mind/Body On: Latinos in Video Games; Frederick Luis Aldama
16. Multimediated Latinos Come Full Circle: An Afterword; John Jota Leaños