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Latinx TV

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Latinx TV offers an accessible and critical guide to television both by and about Latinxs, tracing the representation of Latinxs from the 1950s through to the present day.At once comprehensive in coverage and detailed and specific in examples analyzed, Latinx TV provides key insights into the study of Latinx TV as shaped within historical, social, cultural, regional, and global contexts. Throughout the volume, award-winning scholar Frederick Luis Aldama summarizes, explains, and contextualizes key critical concepts, perspectives, developments, and debates in Latinx media studies. Numerous genres are covered, from comedy, animated cartoons, science fiction and fantasy, and drama, to reality TV. Analogue, digital, and internet technologies in television production and consumption are considered, including the way TikTok, YouTube, and FAST channels that have enabled Latinx creators to build their own serialized storyworlds without network permission. Thematic analyses are of contemporary relevance and focus on issues such as urbanization, immigration, family life, language, politics, gender, sexuality, class, race, and ethnicity.This book makes for an essential read for any media studies students and scholars who want to know more about the history of TV’s representation of US Latinxs.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-08-13
Mått129 x 198 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Television Guidebooks
Antal sidor286
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367418731

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Frederick Luis Aldama is the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas, Austin. He is an award-winning author, co-author and editor of over 60 books, including The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Pop Culture (2016), Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics (2017), Reel Latinxs: Representation in US Film & TV (2019), and Two Vatos Talk Latinx TV, Film, & Pop Cultura (2026). He is editor and co-editor of 10 book series, including Global Media & Race and Latinx Pop Culture.

"For over two decades, I've worked to bridge the gap between Latinx creators and Hollywood's established machinery. As the industry faces unprecedented consolidation, technological disruption, and shifting mandates, Aldama arms our work with vital intellectual architecture. Through concepts like the 'Brown optic' and 'helical time,' he doesn't just chronicle our creative resilience—he connects the dots to reveal how storytellers and studios alike can navigate these tectonic shifts to build sustainable, culturally sincere pipelines for the future."Ben Lopez, founder of L21 Consulting, former head of NALIP, cultural consultant on Disney's Encanto, and Community Advisory Board member for Spielberg's West Side Story"Aldama's brown optic exposes what colorblind media analysis obscures: the Televisual Industrial Complex's machinery of erasure. With thrills and chills, he lights up those extraordinary and persistent sites of Latinx televisual storytelling that, in all their analog and digital shapes and sizes, make it an unstoppable force!"Isabel Molina-Guzmán, author of Latinas and Latinos on TV: Colorblind Comedy in the Post-Racial Network Era"Decades in writers' rooms fighting for the space to shape the very brown-optic stories Aldama gorgeously unpacks here. Latinx TV sees what we've been living and breathing. A must-read for anyone who loves TV and wants to see more of it look like the people around you. Go get it!” Peter Murrieta, Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer and Associate Dean at Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Los Angeles, Arizona State University, USA