Frederick Luis Aldama
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Postethnic Narrative Criticism
Magicorealism in Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie
University of Texas Press
This book seeks to redeem and refine the theory of magical realism in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film.
- Copyright year: 2003
Brown on Brown
Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity
University of Texas Press
An investigation of the ways in which race and sexuality intersect and function in Chicano/a literature and film.
- Copyright year: 2005
Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia
Conversations with Writers and Artists
University of Texas Press
Lively, thought-provoking interviews with twenty-one "second wave" Chicano/a poets, fiction writers, dramatists, documentary filmmakers, and playwrights.
- Copyright year: 2006
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
Your Brain on Latino Comics
From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive exploration of Latino representations in comics, from Marvel superheroes to creations by Latino masters such as Richard Dominguez.
- Copyright year: 2009
A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction
University of Texas Press
A deep exploration of the ways in which postcolonial narrative fiction both acts on and is acted upon by the modern world.
- Copyright year: 2009
Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts
Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama
University of Texas Press
Noted scholars analyze a variety of creative works—plays by Samuel Beckett, novels by Maxine Hong Kingston, music compositions by Igor Stravinsky, art by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, and films by Michael Haneke— to offer a unified knowledge of artistic creativity.
- Copyright year: 2010
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
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
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
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
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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