1. From El Mariachi till Spy Kids? A Cognitive Approach

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Rodriguez’s Cinema of Possibilities: An Introduction 1
4. Matters of Mind and Media
5. 1. From El Mariachi till Spy Kids? A Cognitive Approach 17
6. 2. You’ve Come a Long Way, Booger Breath: Juni Cortez Grows Up in the Spy Kids Films 39
7. Narrative Theory, Cognitive Science, and Sin City: A Case Study
8. 3. Painterly Cinema: Three Minutes of Sin City 63
9. 4. Sin City, Style, and the Status of Noir 81
10. 5. Sin City, Hybrid Media, and a Cognitive Narratology of Multimodality 103
11. Aesthetic and Ontological Border Crossings and Borderlands
12. 6. Intertextploitation and Post-Post- Latinidad in Planet Terror 121
13. 7. Planet Terror Redux: Miscegenation and Family Apocalypse 141
14. 8. The Border Crossed Us: Machete and the Latino Threat Narrative 157
15. 9. The Development of Social Minds in the “Mexico Trilogy” 175
16. It’s a Wrap
17. 10. Tarantino & Rodriguez: A Paradigm 193
18. 11. Five Amigos Crisscross Borders on a Road Trip with Rodriguez 197
19. Afterword: Postproduction in Robert Rodriguez’s “Post-Post- Latinidad” 225
20. Works Cited 229
21. Notes on Contributors 239
22. Index 243