1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Popular Culture

Edited By Frederick Luis Aldama Copyright 2016
464 Pages
by Routledge

464 Pages
by Routledge

464 Pages
by Routledge

Latina/o popular culture has experienced major growth and change with the expanding demographic of Latina/os in mainstream media. In The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Pop Culture, contributors pay serious critical attention to all facets of Latina/o popular culture including TV, films, performance art, food, lowrider culture, theatre, photography, dance, pulp fiction, music, comic books,... Read more

INTRODUCTION. PUTTING THE POP IN LATINO CULTURE.



CHAPTER 1. LATINA/OS ON TV!: A Proud (and Ongoing) Struggle Over Representation and Authorship CHAPTER 2. LATINO FILM IN THE END TIMES



CHAPTER 3. "¡VÁMONOS! LET’S GO!": Latina/o Children’s Television



CHAPTER 4. BRANDING "LATINOHOOD," JUAN BOBO, AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF DORA THE EXPLORER



CHAPTER 5. CANTA Y NO LLORES: Life & Latinidad in Children’s Animation



CHAPTER 6. BEYOND THE "DIGITAL DIVIDE" & LATINA/O POP



CHAPTER 7. WHY VIDEOGAMES: Ludology Meets Latino Studies



Chapter 8. The Industry & Aesthetics of Latino Comic Books



Chapter 9. SCIENCE FICTION AND Latino Studies Today… and in the Future



CHAPTER 10. THE TECHNOLOGY OF LABOR, MIGRATION, AND PROTEST



CHAPTER 11. PERFORMING MESTIZAJE: Making Indigenous Acts Visible in Latina/o Popular Culture



CHAPTER 12. BROWN BODIES ON GREAT WHITE WAY: Latina/o Theater, Pop Culture, and Broadway



CHAPTER 13. SIEMPRE PA’L ARTE: The Passions of Latina/o Spoken Word



CHAPTER 14. POSTINDUSTRIAL PINTO POETICS AND NEW MILLENNIAL MAIZ NARRATIVES: Race and Place in Chicano Hip Hop



CHAPTER 15. PUNK SPANGLISH



CHAPTER 16. LATINO RADIO AND COUNTER EPISTEMOLOGIES



CHAPTER 17. HERMANDAD, ARTE & REBELDÍA: Mexican Popular Art in New York City



CHAPTER 18. INEXACT REVOLUTIONS: Understanding Latino Pop Art



CHAPTER 19. INSTALLATION ART, TRANSNATIONALISM AND THE CHINESE-CHICANO EXPERIENCE



CHAPTER 20. REVISING THE ARCHIVE: Documentary Portraiture in the Photography of Delilah Montoya



CHAPTER 21. FARMWORKER-TO-TABLE MEXICAN: Decolonizing Haute Cuisine



CHAPTER 22. THE RITUALS OF HEALTH



CHAPTER 23. LOWRIDER PUBLICS: Aesthetics and Contested Communities



CHAPTER 24. BARRIO RITUAL AND POP RITE: Quinceañeras in the Folklore-Popular Culture Borderlands



CHAPTER 25. CULTURA JOTERIA: The Ins and O

Biography

Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at the Ohio State University where he is also founder and director of LASER and the Humanities & Cognitive Sciences High School Summer Institute. He is author, co-author, and editor of over 24 books, including the Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature and Latino/a Literature in the Classroom.