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Reel Latinxs
Author | : Frederick Luis Aldama,Christopher González |
Publsiher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2019-09-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780816539581 |
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Latinx representation in the popular imagination has infuriated and befuddled the Latinx community for decades. These misrepresentations and stereotypes soon became as American as apple pie. But these cardboard cutouts and examples of lazy storytelling could never embody the rich traditions and histories of Latinx peoples. Not seeing real Latinxs on TV and film reels as kids inspired the authors to dive deep into the world of mainstream television and film to uncover examples of representation, good and bad. The result: a riveting ride through televisual and celluloid reels that make up mainstream culture. As pop culture experts Frederick Luis Aldama and Christopher González show, the way Latinx peoples have appeared and are still represented in mainstream TV and film narratives is as frustrating as it is illuminating. Stereotypes such as drug lords, petty criminals, buffoons, and sexed-up lovers have filled both small and silver screens—and the minds of the public. Aldama and González blaze new paths through Latinx cultural phenomena that disrupt stereotypes, breathing complexity into real Latinx subjectivities and experiences. In this grand sleuthing sweep of Latinx representation in mainstream TV and film that continues to shape the imagination of U.S. society, these two Latinx pop culture authorities call us all to scholarly action.
Latinx TV in the Twenty First Century
Author | : Frederick Luis Aldama |
Publsiher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2022-04-19 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780816545018 |
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"Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century offers an expansive and critical look at contemporary TV by and about U.S. Latinx communities. This volume unpacks the negative implications of older representation and celebrates the progress of new representation all while recognizing that television still has a long way to go"--
Latinx Teens
Author | : Trevor Boffone,Cristina Herrera |
Publsiher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2022-04-26 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780816542758 |
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Latinx Teens examines how Latinx teenagers influence twenty-first-century U.S. popular culture. The book explores the diverse ways that contemporary mainstream film, television, theater, and young adult literature invokes, constructs, and interprets adolescent Latinidad.
Reading the Contemporary Author
Author | : Alison Gibbons,Elizabeth King |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2023-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781496234612 |
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Reading the Contemporary Author brings together leading scholars in cultural theory, literary criticism, stylistics, narratology, comparative literature, and autobiography studies to interrogate how we read the contemporary author in public and cultural life, in life writing, and in literature.
Contemporary Horror on Screen
Author | : Sarah Baker,Amanda Rutherford,Richard Pamatatau |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2023-10-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789819949656 |
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This book highlights how horror in film and television creates platforms to address distinct areas of modern-day concern. In examining the prevalence of dark tropes in contemporary horror films such as Get Out, Annabelle: Creation, A Quiet Place, Hereditary and The Nun, as well as series such as Stranger Things, American Horror Story and Game of Thrones, amongst numerous others, the authors contend that we are witnessing the emergence of a ‘horror renaissance’. They posit that horror films or programmes, once widely considered to be a low form of popular culture entertainment, can contain deeper meanings or subtext and are increasingly covering serious subject matter. This book thus explores how horror is utilised as a tool to explore social and political anxieties of the cultural moment and is thus presented as a site for contestation, exploration and expansion to discuss present-day fears. It demonstrates how contemporary horror reflects the horror of modern-day life, be it political, biological, social or environmental. A vital contribution to studies of the horror genre in contemporary culture, and the effect it has on social anxieties in a threatening and seemingly apocalyptic time for the world, this is a vital text for students and researchers in popular culture, film, television and media studies.
Latinx Cin in the Twenty First Century
Author | : Frederick Luis Aldama |
Publsiher | : Latinx Pop Culture |
Total Pages | : 521 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780816537907 |
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"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"--
Migration Diaspora Exile
Author | : Daniel Stein,Cathy C. Waegner,Geoffroy de Laforcade,Page R. Laws |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2020-05-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781793617019 |
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Migration is the most volatile sociopolitical issue of our time, as the current escalation of discourse and action in the United States and Europe concerning walls, border security, refugee camps, and deportations indicates. The essays by the international and interdisciplinary group of scholars assembled in this volume offer critical filters suggesting that this escalation and its historical precedents do not preclude redemptive counterstrategies. Encoded in narratives of affiliation and escape, these counterstrategies are variously launched as literary, cinematic, and civic interventions in past and present constructions of diasporic, migratory, or exilic identities. The essays trace these narratives through the figure of the “exile” as it moves across times, borders, and genres, transmogrifying into the fugitive, the escapee, the refugee, the nomad, the Other. Arguing that narratives and figures of migration to and in Europe and the Americas share tropes that link migration to kinship, community, refuge, and hegemony, the volume identifies a transhistorical, transcultural, and transnational common ground for experiences of mediated diaspora, migration, and exile at a time when public discourse and policy-making emphasize borders, divisions, and violent confrontations.
The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction 2 Volumes
Author | : Patrick O'Donnell,Stephen J. Burn,Lesley Larkin |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 1607 |
Release | : 2022-03-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781119431718 |
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Fresh perspectives and eye-opening discussions of contemporary American fiction In The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020, a team of distinguished scholars delivers a focused and in-depth collection of essays on some of the most significant and influential authors and literary subjects of the last four decades. Cutting-edge entries from established and new voices discuss subjects as varied as multiculturalism, contemporary regionalisms, realism after poststructuralism, indigenous narratives, globalism, and big data in the context of American fiction from the last 40 years. The Encyclopedia provides an overview of American fiction at the turn of the millennium as well as a vision of what may come. It perfectly balances analysis, summary, and critique for an illuminating treatment of the subject matter. This collection also includes: An exciting mix of established and emerging contributors from around the world discussing central and cutting-edge topics in American fiction studies Focused, critical explorations of authors and subjects of critical importance to American fiction Topics that reflect the energies and tendencies of contemporary American fiction from the forty years between 1980 and 2020 The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020 is a must-have resource for undergraduate and graduate students of American literature, English, creative writing, and fiction studies. It will also earn a place in the libraries of scholars seeking an authoritative array of contributions on both established and newer authors of contemporary fiction.