Latinos and Narrative Media: Participation and Portrayal

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Multimediated Latinos in the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction....Pages 1-31
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Border Media and New Spaces of Latinidad ....Pages 35-47
Days of the (Un)Dead: Vampires, Zombies, and Other Forms of Chicano/a Horror in Film....Pages 49-69
Postmodern Guacamole: Lifting the Lid on El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera ....Pages 71-84
Latino Media in a Digital Age....Pages 85-90
Tex[t]-Mex, Seductive Hallucinations of the “Mexican” in America, 2.0 or “Narcissus Mexicanus”: A Diary Chronicling the Transmogrifying Metamorphosis of a Mexican American’s Neurosis from Psyche to Book to Museum and on to the Internet....Pages 91-109
Nacho Libre: Or the Inauthenticity of Rascuachismo....Pages 111-116
Illuminated Bodies: Kat Von D and the Borderlands of Tattoo Culture....Pages 117-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Staking Out a Blatino Borderlands....Pages 131-141
Latina Ethnoracial Ambiguity in Postracial Television Narratives....Pages 143-160
Dirty, Stinking, Aliens: Latinos in Today’s Sci-Fi Televisual Blueprints....Pages 161-172
Empathic Cross-Fires: Latinos in Bollywood … Bollywood in Latinolandia....Pages 173-192
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
From El Mariachi to Spy Kids?: A Cognitive Approach....Pages 195-210
Latino Sci-Fi: Cognition and Narrative Design in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer ....Pages 211-223
Latino Comics: Javier Hernandez’s El Muerto as an Allegory of Chicano Identity....Pages 225-240
Getting Your Mind/Body On: Latinos in Video Games....Pages 241-258
Multimediated Latinos Come Full Circle—an Afterword....Pages 259-260
Back Matter....Pages 261-301