Latinos and Narrative Media [electronic resource] : Participation and Portrayal /
Aldama, F.editor.
This is the first book to explore the multitude of narrative media forms created by and that feature Latinos in the twenty-first century - a radically different cultural landscape to earlier epochs. The essays present a fresh take informed by the explosion of Latino demographics and its divergent cultural tastes.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Confessions of a Multimediated Latino-a Foreword; Multimediated Latinos in the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction; PART I Border Genres . . .Borderlands; 1 Border Media and New Spaces of Latinidad; 2 Days of the (Un)Dead: Vampires, Zombies, and Other Forms of Chicano/a Horror in Film; 3 Postmodern Guacamole: Lifting the Lid on El Tigre:The Adventures of Manny Rivera; 4 Latino Media in a Digital Age
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 Internet6 Nacho Libre : Or the Inauthenticity of Rascuachismo; 7 Illuminated Bodies: Kat Von D and the Borderlands of Tattoo Culture; PART II Transmedial . . . Transracial Crossings; 8 Staking Out a Blatino Borderlands; 9 Latina Ethnoracial Ambiguity in Postracial Television Narratives; 10 Dirty, Stinking, Aliens: Latinos in Today's Sci-Fi Televisual Blueprints
11 Empathic Cross-Fires: Latinos in Bollywood . . . Bollywood in LatinolandiaPART III Matters of Form, Mind, and Audience; 12 From El Mariachi to Spy Kids ?: A Cognitive Approach; 13 Latino Sci-Fi: Cognition and Narrative Design in Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer; 14 Latino Comics: Javier Hernandez's El Muerto as an Allegory of Chicano Identity; 15 Getting Your Mind/Body On : Latinos in Video Games; Multimediated Latinos Come Full Circle-an Afterword; Works Cited; Filmography; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-275), filmography (pages 277-278) and index.
This is the first book to explore the multitude of narrative media forms created by and that feature Latinos in the twenty-first century - a radically different cultural landscape to earlier epochs. The essays present a fresh take informed by the explosion of Latino demographics and its divergent cultural tastes.
Ethnology—Latin America.
Communication.
Motion pictures and television.
Social sciences.
Cultural studies.
Latin American Culture.
Media Studies.
Screen Studies.
Social Sciences, general.
Cultural Studies.