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Title:

Critical approaches to the films of Robert Rodriguez / edited by Frederick Luis Aldama ; afterword by Alvaro Rodriguez.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

University of Texas Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

vi, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Rodriguez, Robert,--1968---Criticism and interpretation.
Rodriguez, Robert,--1968-
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Authors:

Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969- editor.
Rodriguez, Alvaro, writer of afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Rodriguez's cinema of possibilities: an introduction / Frederick Luis Aldama -- Matters of mind and media. From El mariachi till spy kids? a cognitive approach / Sue J. Kim -- 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. Painterly cinema: three minutes of Sin city / Patrick Colm Hogan -- Sin city, style, and the status of noir / Emily R. Anderson -- Sin city, hybrid media, and a cognitive narratology of multimodality / Erin E. Eighan -- Aesthetic and ontological border crossings and borderlands. Intertextploitation and post-post-latinidad in Planet terror / Christopher Gonz©Łlez -- Planet terror redux: miscegenation and family apocalypse / Enrique Garc©Ưa -- The border crossed us: Machete and the Latino threat narrative / Zachary Ingle -- The development of social minds in the "Mexico trilogy" / James J. Donahue -- It's a wrap. Tarantino & Rodriguez: a paradigm / Ilan Stavans -- Five amigos crisscross borders on a road trip with Rodriguez / Frederick Luis Aldama, Samuel Sald©Ưvar, Christopher Gonz©Łlez, Sue J. Kim, and Camilla Fojas -- Afterword: postproduction in Robert Rodriguez's "post-post-Latinidad" / Alvaro Rodriguez.

ISBN:

9781477302408 (paperback)
1477302409 (paperback)
9780292763555 (cloth : alk. paper)
0292763557 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)881720711

LCCN:

2014017669

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)