Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

• Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969-

Description

xiii, 506 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Latinx pop culture

Uniform Title

Latinx pop culture.

Subjects

• Hispanic Americans in the motion picture industry
• Hispanic Americans in motion pictures
• Hispanic Americans in the motion picture industry > History > 21st century
• 2000-2099
• Hispanic Americans in motion pictures > History > 21st century
• History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. Martin-Rodriguez ; 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. Rodriguez ; 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.

Call Number

MFL 19-4335

ISBN

• 9780816537907
• 0816537909

LCCN

2019001387

OCLC

1096515495

Title

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

Publisher

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Latinx pop culture

Latinx pop culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969- editor.

Sudoc No.

UA 5.2:L 385

Research Call Number

MFL 19-4335