“You Are a Cortez!”: Robert Rodriguez’s Tejano Sensibility and Restorative Kinship in the Spy Kids Series

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Jennifer M. Lozano
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ABSTRACT:Robert Rodriguez is an iconic Latino filmmaker who presents captivating Latinx characters and storyworlds in genres dominated by whiteness. His Tejano upbringing and sensibility also play an important role in shaping his films. Bringing Tejano history and culture as well as biographical and critical commentary from Rodriguez to bear on the Spy Kids series, I suggest the storyworld is informed by a Tejano sense of place/belonging and identity that delights in independence and ingenuity while upsetting conservative Tejano ideals through representations of nontraditional family and gender hierarchies. In Spy Kids, viewers apprehend less about the dominant US nation-state—often understood as the oppositional motivation of Latinx film—and more about the restorative power of imaginative Latinx kinships.
“你是Cortez!”:罗伯特·罗德里格斯在间谍儿童系列中的Tejano情感和恢复性亲属关系
摘要:罗伯特·罗德里格斯(Robert Rodriguez)是一位标志性的拉丁裔电影制作人,他以白人为主的类型展现了迷人的拉丁人角色和故事世界。他的Tejano教养和情感也在塑造他的电影中发挥了重要作用。将特贾诺的历史和文化以及罗德里格斯的传记和评论带到《间谍儿童》系列中,我认为故事世界是由特贾诺人的地方感/归属感和身份感所决定的,这种地方感、归属感和认同感以独立和独创性为乐,同时通过非传统家庭和性别等级制度的表现来颠覆保守的特贾诺理想。在《间谍小子》中,观众对占主导地位的美国民族国家(通常被理解为拉丁裔电影的对立动机)的理解较少,而对富有想象力的拉丁裔亲属的恢复力的理解较多。
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