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
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
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
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
Long Stories Cut Short
Fictions from the Borderlands
By Frederick Luis Aldama; Foreword by Ana María Shua
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.
Latinx Comics Studies
Critical and Creative Crossings
Edited by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris and Maite Urcaregui; Introduction by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris and Maite Urcaregui
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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