Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Vinodh VenkateshPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438480152ISBN 10: 1438480156 Pages: 276 Publication Date: 01 October 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Mexican Origins 2. Urbanization and Its Discontents in El Man, el superhéroe nacional 3. Allegories of Trauma and Transition in Mirageman 4. The Superhero and a Death Foretold: Chinche Man in San Pedro Sula 5. YouTube, Parody, and Neoliberal Critique in Capitán Centroamérica Post Data: ""Un pibe . . . un boludo más . . . nos vino a salvar"" Notes Works Cited Index"ReviewsThis is a great study that combines concise historical context, astute observations about media forms, and insightful theoretical engagements while, at the same time, exposing readers to a wide range of popular movies-some on the big screen and some on the small-that they might not otherwise know about. Venkatesh does a masterful job demonstrating how superhero films arise in response to specific social, cultural, political, and critical crises. - Brian L. Price, author of Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss ...[a] thought-provoking volume... - Latin American Research Review This is a great study that combines concise historical context, astute observations about media forms, and insightful theoretical engagements while, at the same time, exposing readers to a wide range of popular movies-some on the big screen and some on the small-that they might not otherwise know about. Venkatesh does a masterful job demonstrating how superhero films arise in response to specific social, cultural, political, and critical crises. - Brian L. Price, author of Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss Author InformationVinodh Venkatesh is Professor of Spanish at Virginia Tech and author of New Maricón Cinema: Outing Latin American Film and The Body as Capital: Masculinities in Contemporary Latin American Fiction. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
