Author: Eirini Kalafati & Chrysanthi Thomatou Universidad de Alcalá Download PDF version GENTRIFICATION AND GENTEFICATION: STRIVING FOR BALANCE AMIDST URBAN DEVELOPMENT Gentefied is a Netflix series first released in 2020, and whose first season revolves around the lives of three...
Download PDF version Musical films are a favourite among viewers since their emergence in 1927 (Chilton 2020) tied to the arrival of the “talkies” and the consequent possibility of including sound within what were, until then, silent films. Their popularity...
We’re glad to share the call for abstracts for the edited volume Latinx Representation in Popular Culture and New Media, coordinated by our editors J. Jesse Ramirez and Anna Marta Marini. The editors invite chapter proposals from scholars based in...
Author: Nisâ Sevsay Hacettepe University Our book recommendation of the month is Urrea’s new book The House of Broken Angels, a perfect example on how to weave personal stories into fiction. It is full of warm and intimate stories about...
Download PDF version Rhode Montijo is an American creator and illustrator, whose diverse work spans from children’s books to quirky artifacts and Halloween-inspired oddities. His “fantasmical world” is an articulated universe in which the ambiances of childhood wonder tales blend...
Our recommendation this month is Latinx Ciné, a book edited by scholar Frederick Luis Aldama collecting 24 chapters divided in seven thematic parts. Part I The questions of twenty-first century Latinx ciné The collection opens with a series of papers introducing...
Our recommendation this month is ¡Muy Pop! Conversations on Latino Popular Culture, a book-long conversation between Latinx Studies scholars Frederick Luis Aldama and Ilan Stavans. The book starts off with some considerations exchanged between the two authors on the complexity and...
Download PDF version Jason Gonzalez—artistically known as J. Gonzo—is a Chicano artist, freelance illustrator, designer, art and creative director; born and raised in Cypress, CA, he’s now based in Phoenix, AZ. After completing his studies in visual art and graphic...
Download PDF version As I already claimed in my latest post in this blog regarding “race,” these are times of relativism by which any strategically essentialist claim dignifying an oppressed group is deemed discriminatory by a supposedly neutral alt-right (Fernández...
Download PDF version I first became aware of the debate provoked by the launch of Jeanine Cummins’ American Dirt—and the editorial marketing machine behind it—thanks to social media. In spite of my academic research revolving around the representation of the...
