Roberto Carlos Ortiz

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#SaveODAAT, Yalitza Aparicio and Latinx Fandom

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Roberto Carlos Ortiz Independent

May 15, 2019
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#SaveODAAT, Yalitza Aparicio and Latinx Fandom Fandom and Race One Day at a Time Yalitza Aparicio latinx Netflix Curator's Note On March 14, 2019 Netflix cancelled One Day at a Time, the beloved sitcom about a Cuban-American family in East LA acclaim ...
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Queer Latinx Web Series (Osito, Brujos, Undocumented Tales)

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Roberto Carlos Ortiz Independent

January 26, 2018
Queer Latinx Web Series (Osito, Brujos, Undocumented Tales) Latinos queer Resistance Narratives Curator's Note Short-length videos have become important visibility tools for LGBTQ Latino/Latina/Latinxs, featuring narratives that resist US media ste ...
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Mexican Star "Feud"- La Cucaracha (1959)

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Roberto Carlos Ortiz Independent

September 27, 2017
Mexican Star "Feud"- La Cucaracha (1959) stardom Mexican cinema feuds Curator's Note In Feud (2017), the antagonism between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford serves to critique the position of aging female stars in the classic Hollywood star sy ...
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Queer Nostalgia: The Juan Gabriel Biographical Series

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Roberto Carlos Ortiz Independent

December 07, 2016
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Queer Nostalgia: The Juan Gabriel Biographical Series queer Limited Series Latino television Curator's Note On November 20, 2016, Telemundo broadcast the finale of Hasta Que Te Conocí (Until I Met You), a 13-episode Sunday night series about Mexican ...
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Mommie Dearest Remixed: Child Abuse as Camp

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Roberto Carlos Ortiz Independent

April 08, 2015
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Mommie Dearest Remixed: Child Abuse as Camp queer Domestic Abuse in Movies and Television camp Curator's Note Based on 1978's “tell-all” memoir, Mommie Dearest (1981) portrays the abuses that movie star Joan Crawford inflicted on her adopted da ...
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What's Up with D-List Latinidad?

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Roberto Carlos Ortiz Independent

March 26, 2015
What's Up with D-List Latinidad? stardom Latinos D-List Celebrities Curator's Note A popular 2015 Super Bowl commercial featured the teenage Marcia, from The Brady Bunch, morphing into Danny Trejo, the 70-year-old Mexican-American actor best-kno ...

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Re: Queer Nostalgia: The Juan Gabriel Biographical Series

Thanks, Julia. I think I

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Roberto Carlos Ortiz Independent

Tuesday, December 13, 2016 — 2:12 am
Thanks, Julia. I think I intended “queer nostalgia” to include the (presumably) straight audience’s “nostalgia for the queer” among the various possible modes: the nostalgic queer (later in the first episode, we find out that the protagonist, already famo ...
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Re: Queer Nostalgia: The Juan Gabriel Biographical Series

Thanks, Geoffrey. I’m not

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Roberto Carlos Ortiz Independent

Tuesday, December 13, 2016 — 2:06 am
Thanks, Geoffrey. I'm not sure I would’ve been interested if I hadn’t been familiar with its subject and done previous research on him. The series has excellent production values, but it felt very old-fashioned compared to other limited series with L ...
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Re: Mommie Dearest Remixed: Child Abuse as Camp

What's Appropriate?

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Roberto Carlos Ortiz Independent

Saturday, April 11, 2015 — 8:42 pm
Thanks for the comments. I agree that many won't find the queer/ camp appropriation of child abuse images funny and that certain modes of abuse or violence are harder to repurpose for comedic effect (like when Pedro Almodovar included a controversial ...