ISBN:
9781137366450
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (317 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Latinos and Narrative Media : Participation and Portrayal
DDC:
302.2308968
Keywords:
Ethnology-Latin America
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
〈p 〉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 / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
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