David S. Dalton is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author of Robo Sacer: Necroliberalism and Cyborg Resistance in Mexican and Chicanx Dystopias and Mestizo Modernity: Race, Technology, and the Body in Postrevolutionary Mexico.

"Scholarship on animation has drifted towards the practices of Hollywood and the United States. Informative and accessible, Animation in Mexico offers fresh, intriguing perspectives on practices that have long gone unnoticed." — Jacqueline Avila, author of Cinesonidos: Film Music and National Identity During Mexico's Época de Oro"A significant intervention. Dalton's introduction provides a clear, succinct overview of the history of Mexican animation and extends it into the twenty-first century, while the volume as a whole makes a compelling case for further study in the area." — Brian L. Price, coeditor of The Lost Cinema of Mexico: From Lucha Libre to Cine Familiar and Other Churros

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Animation in Mexico: A Brief HistoryDavid S. DaltonSECTION I: The Fifth Period: Commercial Animated Cinema in the Domestic Market1. Huevocartoon: New Masculinities and the Poetics of FailureRodrigo Figueroa Obregón2. On Colonial and Decolonial Ghosting: La leyenda de la NahualaElissa J. Rashkin3. La revolución de Juan Escopeta: Toward Nonviolent Masculinity and CitizenshipSofia Paiva de Araujo and David S. Dalton4. Es un pájaro, es un avión: The Twenty-First-Century Animated Mexican SuperheroVinodh Venkatesh SECTION II: The Sixth Period: On Streaming and the Internationalization of Mexican Animation5. Politicized Web Praxis in Mexican Animated Short Films: Reality 2.0 (2012) and Retrato Político (2013)Katherine Bundy6. The Impact of Anime in Mexico-Centered Adult Animation and Global Mexican RepresentationYunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar7. The Day of the Dead: Mexican Gothic and Animated CinemaEnrique Ajuria Ibarra8. Border/lands of Belonging in Disney-Pixar's CocoMolly F. ToddList of ContributorsIndex

David S. Dalton is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author of Robo Sacer: Necroliberalism and Cyborg Resistance in Mexican and Chicanx Dystopias and Mestizo Modernity: Race, Technology, and the Body in Postrevolutionary Mexico.

"Scholarship on animation has drifted towards the practices of Hollywood and the United States. Informative and accessible, Animation in Mexico offers fresh, intriguing perspectives on practices that have long gone unnoticed." — Jacqueline Avila, author of Cinesonidos: Film Music and National Identity During Mexico's Época de Oro"A significant intervention. Dalton's introduction provides a clear, succinct overview of the history of Mexican animation and extends it into the twenty-first century, while the volume as a whole makes a compelling case for further study in the area." — Brian L. Price, coeditor of The Lost Cinema of Mexico: From Lucha Libre to Cine Familiar and Other Churros

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Animation in Mexico: A Brief HistoryDavid S. DaltonSECTION I: The Fifth Period: Commercial Animated Cinema in the Domestic Market1. Huevocartoon: New Masculinities and the Poetics of FailureRodrigo Figueroa Obregón2. On Colonial and Decolonial Ghosting: La leyenda de la NahualaElissa J. Rashkin3. La revolución de Juan Escopeta: Toward Nonviolent Masculinity and CitizenshipSofia Paiva de Araujo and David S. Dalton4. Es un pájaro, es un avión: The Twenty-First-Century Animated Mexican SuperheroVinodh Venkatesh SECTION II: The Sixth Period: On Streaming and the Internationalization of Mexican Animation5. Politicized Web Praxis in Mexican Animated Short Films: Reality 2.0 (2012) and Retrato Político (2013)Katherine Bundy6. The Impact of Anime in Mexico-Centered Adult Animation and Global Mexican RepresentationYunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar7. The Day of the Dead: Mexican Gothic and Animated CinemaEnrique Ajuria Ibarra8. Border/lands of Belonging in Disney-Pixar's CocoMolly F. ToddList of ContributorsIndex

David S. Dalton is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author of Robo Sacer: Necroliberalism and Cyborg Resistance in Mexican and Chicanx Dystopias and Mestizo Modernity: Race, Technology, and the Body in Postrevolutionary Mexico.

"Scholarship on animation has drifted towards the practices of Hollywood and the United States. Informative and accessible, Animation in Mexico offers fresh, intriguing perspectives on practices that have long gone unnoticed." — Jacqueline Avila, author of Cinesonidos: Film Music and National Identity During Mexico's Época de Oro"A significant intervention. Dalton's introduction provides a clear, succinct overview of the history of Mexican animation and extends it into the twenty-first century, while the volume as a whole makes a compelling case for further study in the area." — Brian L. Price, coeditor of The Lost Cinema of Mexico: From Lucha Libre to Cine Familiar and Other Churros

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Animation in Mexico: A Brief HistoryDavid S. DaltonSECTION I: The Fifth Period: Commercial Animated Cinema in the Domestic Market1. Huevocartoon: New Masculinities and the Poetics of FailureRodrigo Figueroa Obregón2. On Colonial and Decolonial Ghosting: La leyenda de la NahualaElissa J. Rashkin3. La revolución de Juan Escopeta: Toward Nonviolent Masculinity and CitizenshipSofia Paiva de Araujo and David S. Dalton4. Es un pájaro, es un avión: The Twenty-First-Century Animated Mexican SuperheroVinodh Venkatesh SECTION II: The Sixth Period: On Streaming and the Internationalization of Mexican Animation5. Politicized Web Praxis in Mexican Animated Short Films: Reality 2.0 (2012) and Retrato Político (2013)Katherine Bundy6. The Impact of Anime in Mexico-Centered Adult Animation and Global Mexican RepresentationYunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar7. The Day of the Dead: Mexican Gothic and Animated CinemaEnrique Ajuria Ibarra8. Border/lands of Belonging in Disney-Pixar's CocoMolly F. ToddList of ContributorsIndex