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Frederick Aldama's The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez (2014) was the first full-scale study of one of the most prolific and significant Latino directors making films today. In this companion volume, Aldama enlists a corps of experts to analyze a majority of Rodriguez's feature films, from his first break-out success El Mariachi in 1992 to Machete in 2010. The essays explore the formal and thematic features present in his films from the perspectives of industry (context, convention, and distribution), the film blueprint (auditory and visual ingredients), and consumption (ideal and real audiences). The authors illuminate the manifold ways in which Rodriguez's films operate internally (plot, character, and event) and externally (audience perception, thought, and feeling). The volume is divided into three parts: ""Matters of Mind and Media"" includes essays that use psychoanalytic and cognitive psychology to shed light on how Rodriguez's films complicate Latino identity, as well as how they succeed in remaking audiences' preconceptions of the world. ""Narrative Theory, Cognitive Science, and Sin City: A Case Study"" offers tools and models of analysis for the study of Rodriguez's film re-creation of a comic book (on which Frank Miller was credited as codirector). ""Aesthetic and Ontological Border Crossings and Borderlands"" considers how Rodriguez's films innovatively critique fixed notions of Latino identity and experience, as well as open eyes to racial injustices. As a whole, the volume demonstrates how Rodriguez's career offers critical insights into the filmmaking industry, the creative process, and the consuming and reception of contemporary film.

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Author:   Frederick Luis Aldama ,  Alvaro Rodriguez
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9781477302408

ISBN 10:   1477302409
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   15 March 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Rodriguez's Cinema of Possibilities: An Introduction (Frederick Luis Aldama) Matters of Mind and Media One. From El Mariachi till Spy Kids? A Cognitive Approach (Sue J. Kim) Two. You've Come a Long Way, Booger Breath: Juni Cortez Grows Up in the Spy Kids Films (Phillip Serrato) Narrative Theory, Cognitive Science, and Sin City: A Case Study Three. Painterly Cinema: Three Minutes of Sin City (Patrick Colm Hogan) Four. Sin City, Style, and the Status of Noir (Emily R. Anderson) Five. Sin City, Hybrid Media, and a Cognitive Narratology of Multimodality (Erin E. Eighan) Aesthetic and Ontological Border Crossings and Borderlands Six. Intertextploitation and Post-Post-Latinidad in Planet Terror (Christopher González) Seven. Planet Terror Redux: Miscegenation and Family Apocalypse (Enrique García) Eight. The Border Crossed Us: Machete and the Latino Threat Narrative (Zachary Ingle) Nine. The Development of Social Minds in the ""Mexico Trilogy"" (James J. Donahue) It's a Wrap Ten. Tarantino & Rodriguez: A Paradigm (Ilan Stavans) Eleven. Five Amigos Crisscross Borders on a Road Trip with Rodriguez (Frederick Luis Aldama, Samuel Saldívar, Christopher González, Sue J. Kim, and Camilla Fojas) Afterword. Postproduction in Robert Rodriguez's ""Post-Post-Latinidad"" (Alvaro Rodriguez) Works Cited Notes on Contributors Index"

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Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at the Ohio State University, where he founded and directs LASER/Latino and Latin American Space for Enrichment and Research. His many books include Analyzing World Fiction: New Horizons in Narrative Theory, Your Brain on Latino Comics: From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez, and Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts.

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