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Latinx Ciné in the Twenty-First Century /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword: Bearing witness : A Latinx filmmaker's journey / Paul Espinosa
  • Introduction: Latinx cine : filmmaking, production, and consumption in the twenty-first century / Frederick Luis Aldama
  • Part I. The Question of Twenty-First Century Latinx Cine. 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 Cine 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 / Desiree 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 Cine. 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 cine : a coda / Rosa-Linda Fregoso.