The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Popular Culture (Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions)

Latina/o popular culture has experienced major growth and change with the expanding demographic of Latina/os in mainstream media.

In The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Pop Culture, contributors pay serious critical attention to all facets of Latina/o popular culture including TV, films, performance art, food, lowrider culture, theatre, photography, dance, pulp fiction, music, comic books, video games, news, web, and digital media, healing rituals, quinceñeras, and much more.

Features include:consideration of differences between pop culture made by and about Latina/os; comprehensive and critical analyses of various pop cultural forms; concrete and detailed treatments of major primary works from children’stv to representations of dia de los muertos;