Frederick Luis Aldama
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Why the Humanities Matter
A Commonsense Approach
University of Texas Press
A rousing rethinking of current critical theory and the role of culture in realms ranging from art and literature to justice and history.
- Copyright year: 2008
Multicultural Comics
From Zap to Blue Beetle
Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama; Introduction by Derek Parker Royal
University of Texas Press
Exploring a wide range of mainstream and independent comic books, this is the first comprehensive collection of scholarly and archival work on multicultural comics from around the world.
- Copyright year: 2010
The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez
By Frederick Luis Aldama; Introduction by Charles Ramírez Berg
University of Texas Press
With insightful analysis of films ranging from El Mariachi to Spy Kids 4 and Machete Kills, as well as a lively interview in which the filmmaker discusses his career, here is the first scholarly overview of the work of Robert Rodriguez, the most successful U.S. Latino filmmaker today.
- Copyright year: 2014
Analyzing World Fiction
New Horizons in Narrative Theory
Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama
University of Texas Press
A sweeping collection of approaches to narrative theory, with analyses drawn from a variety of truly global literature, films, and television shows.
- Copyright year: 2011
Critical Approaches to the Films of Robert Rodriguez
Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama; Afterword by Alvaro Rodriguez
University of Texas Press
This companion volume to Frederick Luis Aldama’s The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez brings together leading scholars who take a variety of theoretical and critical perspectives in analyzing the filmmaking of today’s most prolific and significant Latino direct
- Copyright year: 2015
Border Cinema
Reimagining Identity through Aesthetics
Edited by Monica Hanna and Rebecca A. Sheehan
Rutgers University Press
This collection demonstrates how border cinema resists contemporary border fortification processes, showing how cinematic media have functioned technologically and aesthetically to engender contemporary shifts in national and individual identities while proposing alternative conceptions of these identities to those propagated by the often restrictive current political rhetoric and ideologies that represent a backlash to globalization.
- Copyright year: 2019
Latinx Ciné in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama
The University of Arizona Press
This timeless volume is a significant analysis of the burgeoning field of Latinx filmmaking. Editor Frederick Luis Aldama has gathered together some of the best writing on Latinx ciné in the twenty-first century. Today’s filmmakers show the world a rich Latinidad informed by a complexly layered culture replete with history, biography, and everyday experiences.
- Copyright year: 2019
Reel Latinxs
Representation in U.S. Film and TV
The University of Arizona Press
Experts in Latinx pop culture Frederick Luis Aldama and Christopher González explain the real implications of Latinx representation in mainstream TV and film. They also provide a roadmap through a history of mediatized Latinxs that rupture stereotypes and reveal nuanced reconstructions of Latinx subjectivities and experiences.
- Copyright year: 2019
Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics
The University of Arizona Press
The foremost expert on Latinx comics, Frederick Luis Aldama guides us through the full archive of all the Latinx superheros in comics since the 1940s. Aldama takes us where the superheroes live—the barrios, the hospitals, the school rooms, the farm fields—and he not only shows us a view to the Latinx content, sometimes deeply embedded, but also provokes critical inquiry into the way storytelling formats distill and reconstruct real Latinos/as.
- Copyright year: 2017
Graphic Borders
Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future
Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and Christopher González
University of Texas Press
The first volume in a trailblazing series on world comics and graphic nonfiction, this book presents a comprehensive array of historical, formal, and cognitive approaches to Latino comics—an exciting popular culture space that captures the distinctive and
- Copyright year: 2016
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