Robert Rodriguez’s Fever-Dream: ‘Alita’ and the Building of Latinx Sci-Fi Worlds

Robert Rodriguez’s Fever-Dream: ‘Alita’ and the Building of Latinx Sci-Fi Worlds By Frederick Luis Aldama Most sci-fi films focus time and attention to building new worlds for us to experience. From Georges Méliès 1902 Trip to the Moon through Robert Rodriguez’s Alita: Battle Angel  today, filmmakers have used their cinematographic […]

Puro Corazón: The Heartwork of Melanie Cervantes

FOR THE LATINX RESEARCH CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Cover Acknowledgements Table of Contents Introduction Contributors Cover Acknowledgements Table of Contents Introduction Contributors Puro Corazón:  The Heartwork of Melanie Cervantes By Moi Santos  The latter half of the 20th century in the United States was characterized by a series of […]

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