Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century
Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century offers an expansive and critical look at contemporary television by and about U.S. Latinx communities. This volume is comprehensive in its coverage while diving into detailed and specific examples as it navigates the complex and ever-changing world of Latinx representation and creation in television.

In this volume, editor Frederick Luis Aldama brings together leading experts who show how Latinx TV is shaped by historical, social, cultural, regional, and global contexts. Contributors address head on harmful stereotypes in Latinx representation while giving key insights to a positive path forward. TV narratives by and about Latinx people exist across all genres. In this century, we see Latinx people in sitcoms, sci-fi, noir, soap operas, rom-coms, food shows, dramas, action-adventure, and more. Latinx people appear in television across all formats, from quick webisodes, to serialized big-arc narratives, to animation and everything in between. The diverse array of contributors to this volume delve into this rich landscape of Latinx TV from 2000 to today, spanning the ever-widening range of genres and platforms.

Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century argues that Latinx TV is not just television—it’s an entire movement. Digital spaces and streaming platforms today have allowed for Latinx representation on TV that speaks to Latinx people and non-Latinx people alike, bringing rich and varied Latinx cultures into mainstream television and addressing urbanization, immigration, family life, language, politics, gender, sexuality, class, race, and ethnicity.

Once heavily underrepresented and harmfully stereotypical, Latinx representation on TV is beginning to give careful nuance to regional, communal, and familial experiences among U.S. Latinx people. This volume unpacks the negative implications of older representation and celebrates the progress of new representation, recognizing that television has come a long way, but there is still a lot of important work to do for truly diverse and inclusive representation.
 
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Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century
Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century offers an expansive and critical look at contemporary television by and about U.S. Latinx communities. This volume is comprehensive in its coverage while diving into detailed and specific examples as it navigates the complex and ever-changing world of Latinx representation and creation in television.

In this volume, editor Frederick Luis Aldama brings together leading experts who show how Latinx TV is shaped by historical, social, cultural, regional, and global contexts. Contributors address head on harmful stereotypes in Latinx representation while giving key insights to a positive path forward. TV narratives by and about Latinx people exist across all genres. In this century, we see Latinx people in sitcoms, sci-fi, noir, soap operas, rom-coms, food shows, dramas, action-adventure, and more. Latinx people appear in television across all formats, from quick webisodes, to serialized big-arc narratives, to animation and everything in between. The diverse array of contributors to this volume delve into this rich landscape of Latinx TV from 2000 to today, spanning the ever-widening range of genres and platforms.

Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century argues that Latinx TV is not just television—it’s an entire movement. Digital spaces and streaming platforms today have allowed for Latinx representation on TV that speaks to Latinx people and non-Latinx people alike, bringing rich and varied Latinx cultures into mainstream television and addressing urbanization, immigration, family life, language, politics, gender, sexuality, class, race, and ethnicity.

Once heavily underrepresented and harmfully stereotypical, Latinx representation on TV is beginning to give careful nuance to regional, communal, and familial experiences among U.S. Latinx people. This volume unpacks the negative implications of older representation and celebrates the progress of new representation, recognizing that television has come a long way, but there is still a lot of important work to do for truly diverse and inclusive representation.
 
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Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century

Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century

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Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century offers an expansive and critical look at contemporary television by and about U.S. Latinx communities. This volume is comprehensive in its coverage while diving into detailed and specific examples as it navigates the complex and ever-changing world of Latinx representation and creation in television.

In this volume, editor Frederick Luis Aldama brings together leading experts who show how Latinx TV is shaped by historical, social, cultural, regional, and global contexts. Contributors address head on harmful stereotypes in Latinx representation while giving key insights to a positive path forward. TV narratives by and about Latinx people exist across all genres. In this century, we see Latinx people in sitcoms, sci-fi, noir, soap operas, rom-coms, food shows, dramas, action-adventure, and more. Latinx people appear in television across all formats, from quick webisodes, to serialized big-arc narratives, to animation and everything in between. The diverse array of contributors to this volume delve into this rich landscape of Latinx TV from 2000 to today, spanning the ever-widening range of genres and platforms.

Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century argues that Latinx TV is not just television—it’s an entire movement. Digital spaces and streaming platforms today have allowed for Latinx representation on TV that speaks to Latinx people and non-Latinx people alike, bringing rich and varied Latinx cultures into mainstream television and addressing urbanization, immigration, family life, language, politics, gender, sexuality, class, race, and ethnicity.

Once heavily underrepresented and harmfully stereotypical, Latinx representation on TV is beginning to give careful nuance to regional, communal, and familial experiences among U.S. Latinx people. This volume unpacks the negative implications of older representation and celebrates the progress of new representation, recognizing that television has come a long way, but there is still a lot of important work to do for truly diverse and inclusive representation.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780816545018
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 04/19/2022
Series: Latinx Pop Culture
Pages: 408
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Frederick Luis Aldama is the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as Adjunct Professor and Distinguished University Professor at The Ohio State University. He is the award-winning author of more than forty-eight books and founder and director of UT Austin’s Latinx Pop Lab.

Table of Contents

Curation; or, It's All in the Mix: Forewords to the Televisual Delights of Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century William "Memo" Nericcio xi

Latinx TVLandia: Moments to Movement Frederick Luis Aldama 3

Part I #Brownlaughter

Laughing at or with Latinos?: Changing the Scope of the Camera's Narrative Gaze in Midwest-Based Comedies Laura Fernández 27

Cristela Alonzo's Subversive Humor: Television, Nostalgia, and the New Latino American Dream Melissa Castillo Planas 43

Humor as Subversion: Feminist Messages in George Lopez Yadira Gamez 56

Part II #Brownsuffering/#Brownwellness

Peripheral Futurities of Multiculturalism: Suffering Latinas in the Orange Is the New Black Ensemble Cast Katlin Marisol Sweeney 71

Latinxs in Prime Time: A Look at Mental Health Television Portrayals José A. Muñoz Anahi Reynoso-Franco Lydia Perez-Palencia Sarai Tovar 97

Inhala, Exhala: Latinas, Mental Health Journeys, and Accessible Shaping Devices in TV Danielle Alexis Orozco 113

Part III #Straightwhiteforms/Bentbrowngenres

Latinidad Through Dora the Explorer: Ignored Histories and Realities in Popular Children's Media Cristina Rivera 145

Unholy Holiday: Día de Muertos in Disney's Elena of Avalor Mathew Sandoval 159

These Are Their Historias: Latinx Cops and Prosecutors in Police Shows Mauricio Espinoza 173

¿Quien Manda in Star Wars? Disidentifying with the Bandido in The Mandalorian Carlos Gabriel Kelly González 192

Part IV #Borderlandlatinxsreclaimed

Undocumedia: Documentary Media and the Spectacle of Enforcement Camilla Fojas 211

Party of Five Reboot: The Denaturalization of Undocumented Latinx Suffering Stacey Alex 223

Stories Valued, Bodies Excluded: Immigrant Narratives in Jane the Virgin, On My Block, and Party of Five Irma J. Zamora Fuerte 241

Myth, Force, and the Burden of Prestige: Narcos: Mexico as Case Study Ryan Rashotte 255

From Border "Reality" to Narrative Possibilities in Latinx TV and FX's The Bridge J. V. Miranda 269

Part V #QueeringlatinxTV

"Quiero que Vengas": Coming From, Out, and Into the Lesbian Latin(a) Lover Peyton Del Toro 285

Cognitive Richness and Serial Ingredients in Vida Héctor J. Pérez 300

Transloca(l) Poetics: Que(e)ring Mucho, Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes 311

Part VI #Streamingbrown

Beyond Narcos and Novelas: The Diverse World of Streaming in Latin America David Schmidt 337

The Unstable Intersection of Witchcraft, Slavery, and Representation in Siempre bruja Nicole Pizarro 357

Peter Murrieta Talks: A Life of Shaping Twenty-First-Century Latinx TVLandia 369

Contributors 381

Index 387

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