Preview on Google Books

Reclaiming Poch@ Pop on Google Books

The hardback copies are due out in a couple weeks, but the preview is live on Google Books. The embed function doesn't work very well here, so I'm posting a pic I posted to Instagram from the Google Books site.

A photo posted by Cruz Medina (@academiadecruz) on Dec 12, 2014 at 6:13am PST

Direct Google Books link: https://books.google.com/books?id=RpjOBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PT27&dq=poch%40%20pop&pg=PT27#v=onepage&q=poch@%20pop&f=false

Or get it at Amazon!

(Back Cover with Reviews, Synopsis & Author Bio)

Poch@ Pop Book Trailer

Multimodal Composition for My Book

Here's the trailer for my new book Reclaiming Poch@ Pop: Examining the Rhetoric of Cultural Deficiency (Latino Pop Culture) from Palgrave MacMillan. I used a somewhat popular trailer template from iMovie, but the comic book motif fit the content too well considering I look at the work of political cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz.

The song "Haces el amor con el televisor" by Limbo Deluxe--available on freemusicarchive.org--really connected with the pop theme (it translates to 'making love with the TV' in English), which aligns with the content of this examination of popular culture that many Latin@s share as a part of cultural memory.

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