Frederick Luis Aldama

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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
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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
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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
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The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez

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
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Analyzing World Fiction

New Horizons in Narrative Theory

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
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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
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Graphic Borders

Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future

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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Border Cinema

Reimagining Identity through Aesthetics

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
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Latinx Ciné in the Twenty-First Century

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
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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
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Long Stories Cut Short

Fictions from the Borderlands

The University of Arizona Press

Frederick Luis Aldama and graphic artists from Mapache Studios give shape to ugly truths in the most honest way, creating new perceptions, thoughts, and feelings about life in the borderlands of the Américas. Each bilingual prose-art fictional snapshot offers an unsentimentally complex glimpse into what it means to exist at the margins of society today.

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Latinx Comics Studies

Critical and Creative Crossings

Rutgers University Press

Latinx Comics Studies considers the role of comics and graphic narrative in picturing the rich realities of Latinx communities. It brings together groundbreaking critical essays, practical reflections, original and republished short comics to explore how comics by, for, and about Latinx peoples creatively and conceptually experiment with the very boundaries of “Latinx.”
 

  • Copyright year: 2025
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