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- ISBN 9780367418731
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 26 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 engage issues of contemporary relevance, including urbanization, immigration, family life, language, politics, gender, sexuality, class, race, and ethnicity.
Latinx TV is essential reading for any media studies students and scholars seeking a deeper understanding of the history of US Latinx representation on television.
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 Popular Culture (2016), Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics (2017), Reel Latinxs: Representation in US Film and TV (2019), and Two Vatos Talk Pop Cultura: Latinx TV, Film, and Futures Unscripted (2026). He is editor and co-editor of 10 book series, including Global Media & Race and Latinx Pop Culture.
