Routledge Companion to Latina/o Popular Culture

<p>Latina/o popular culture has experienced major growth and change with the expanding demographic of Latina/os in mainstream media. In <i>The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Pop Culture</i> 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 video games news web and digital media healing rituals quinceñeras and much more. </p><p>Features include:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>consideration of differences between pop culture made by and about Latina/os;</li> <p> </p> <li>comprehensive and critical analyses of various pop cultural forms;</li> <p> </p> <li>concrete and detailed treatments of major primary works from children’s television to representations of <i>dia de los muertos</i>;</li> <p> </p> <li>new perspectives on the political social and historical dynamic of Latina/o pop culture;</li> </ul><p>Chapters select summarize explain contextualize and assess key critical interpretations perspectives developments and debates in Latina/o popular cultural studies. A vitally engaging and informative volume this compliation of wide-ranging case studies in Latina/o pop culture phenomena encourages scholars and students to view Latina/o pop culture within the broader study of global popular culture. </p><p><b>Contributors: </b>Stacey Alex Cecilia Aragon Mary Beltrán William A. Calvo-Quirós Melissa Castillo-Garsow Nicholas Centino Ben Chappell Fabio Chee Osvaldo Cleger David A. Colón Marivel T. Danielson Laura Fernández Camilla Fojas Kathryn M. Frank Enrique García Christopher González Rachel González-Martin Matthew David Goodwin Ellie D. Hernandez Jorge Iber Guisela Latorre Stephanie Lewthwaite Richard Alexander Lou Stacy I. Macías Desirée Martin Paloma Martínez-Cruz Pancho McFarland Cruz Medina Isabel Millán Amelia María de la Luz Montes William Anthony Nericcio William Orchard Rocío Isabel Prado Ryan Rashotte Cristina Rivera Gabriella Sanchez Ilan Stavans</p><p>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 <i>the Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature</i> and <i>Latino/a Literature in the Classroom</i>. </p>