[Comicsstudiessociety] IJOCA book for review - US ONLY - Capitán Latinoamérica

[Mike Rhode]

US only due to postage costs I'm afraid. Available to the first person who
writes ME back at mrhode at gmail.com

Thanks,

Mike


*Capitán Latinoamérica*
Superheroes in Cinema, Television, and Web Series
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Vinodh Venkatesh - Author
SUNY series in Latin American Cinema
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*Analyzes contemporary superhero-themed cinema, television, and web series
in Latin America.*

*Capitán Latinoamérica* is the first study to examine the unique
contribution of Latin American cinema, television, and web series to the
global superhero boom. Through an analysis of superhero-themed media from
Mexico to Argentina, Vinodh Venkatesh argues that contemporary Latin
American superheroes are a hybrid of regional tropes and figures such as
the famed *luchador*, El Chapulín Colorado, and North American blockbuster
characters from the DC and Marvel universes. These superheroes channel
anxieties specific to their respective national contexts. In Chile, for
example, Mirageman rehashes and works through the Pinochet dictatorship and
its traumatic aftermath; in Honduras, Chinche Man confronts neoliberalism
and gang violence. In Colombia’s *El Man*, in turn, rapid urbanization and
drug cartels are the central concerns, whereas corruption and the political
machinations of the state feature most prominently in the television and
web series *Capitán Centroamérica*. While the Latin American superhero
genre may be superficially characterized by low budgets and kitsch
aesthetics, it also poses profound challenges to the social, political, and
economic status quo. Covering a wide variety of media bookended by
wrestling films from the early 1960s and multimedia productions from the
2010s, *Capitán Latinoamérica* offers a comprehensive introduction to, and
assessment of, the state of the superhero in Latin America.

“This is a great study that combines concise historical context, astute
observations about media forms, and insightful theoretical engagements
while, at the same time, exposing readers to a wide range of popular
movies—some on the big screen and some on the small—that they might not
otherwise know about. Venkatesh does a masterful job demonstrating how
superhero films arise in response to specific social, cultural, political,
and critical crises.” — Brian L. Price, author of *Cult of Defeat in
Mexico’s Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss*

*Vinodh Venkatesh* is Professor of Spanish at Virginia Tech and author of *New
Maricón Cinema: Outing Latin American Film* and *The Body as Capital:
Masculinities in Contemporary Latin American Fiction*.
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