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

[Mike Rhode]

This book is taken, thank you.

Mike

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 10:28 AM Mike Rhode <mrhode at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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> *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.*
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> *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.
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> “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*
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> *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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