Books by Frederick Luis Aldama

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies is a comprehensive, global and interdisciplinary examination of the essential relationship between Gender, Sexuality, Comics and Graphic Novels.

Acclaimed comics scholar Frederick Luis Aldama shines light on how mainstream comics have clumsily distilled and reconstructed Indigenous identities and experiences. This book emphasizes how Indigenous comic artists are themselves clearing new visual-verbal narrative spaces for articulating more complex histories, and narratives of self.

With insightful analysis of films ranging from El Mariachi to Spy Kids 4 and Machete Kills, as well as a lively interview in which the filmmaker discusses his career, here is the first scholarly overview of the work of Robert Rodriguez, the most successfu

An investigation of the ways in which race and sexuality intersect and function in Chicano/a literature and film.