Peter Murrieta Talks: A Life of Shaping Twenty-First-Century Latinx TVLandia -- Laughing at or with Latinos?: Changing the Scope of the Camera's Narrative Gaze in Midwest-Based Comedies -- Cristela Alonzo's Subversive Humor: Television, Nostalgia, and the New Latino American Dream -- Humor as Subversion: Feminist Messages n George Lopez -- Peripheral Futurities of Multiculturalism: Suffering Latinas in the Orange Is the New Black Ensemble cast -- Latinxs in Prime Time: A Look at Mental Health Television Portrayals -- Inhala, Exhala: Latinas, mental Health Journeys, and Accessible Shaping Devices in TV -- Latinidad Through Dora the Explorer: Ignored Histories and Realities in Popular Children's Media -- Unholy Holiday: Día de Muertos in Disney's Elena of Avalor -- These Are Their Historias: Latinx Cops and Prosecutors in Police Shows -- ¿Quien Manda in Star Wars? Disidentifying with the Bandido in The Mandalorian -- Undocumedia: Documentary Media and the Spectacle of Enforcement -- Party of Five Reboot: The Denaturalization of Undocumented Latinx Suffering -- Stories valued, Bodies Excluded: Immigrant Narratives in Jane the Virgin, On My Block, and Party of Five -- Myth, Force, and the Burden of Prestige: Narcos: Mexico as Case Study -- From Border "Reality" to Narrative Possibilities in Latinx TV and FX's The Bridge -- "Quiero que Vengas": Coming From, Out, and Into the Lesbian Latin(a) Lover -- Cognitive Richness and Serial Ingredients in Vida -- Transloca(l) Poetics: Que(e)ring Mucho, mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado -- Beyond Narcos and Novelas: The Diverse World of Streaming in Latin America -- The Unstable Intersection of Witchcraft, Slavery, and Representation in Siempre bruja -- Peter Murrieta Talks: A Life of Shaping Twenty-First-Century Latinx TVLandia -- Index. Index.
Summary:
"Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century offers an expansive and critical look at contemporary TV by and about U.S. Latinx communities. This volume unpacks the negative implications of older representation and celebrates the progress of new representation all while recognizing that television still has a long way to go"-- Provided by publisher.
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