The US-Mexico Border in American Cold War Film : Romance, Revolution, and Regulation (Screening Spaces)

Fuller, Stephanie

Palgrave Macmillan（2015/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 232 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781137538567
• DDC分類 791.43658721

Full Description

Through an analysis of Cold War Era films including Border Incident , Where Danger Lives , and Touch of Evil , Stephanie Fuller illustrates how cinema across genres developed an understanding of what the U.S.-Mexico border meant within the American cultural imaginary and the ways in which it worked to produce the border.

Contents

Introduction: Screening the Spaces of the US-Mexico Border PART I: ROMANCE 1. The Romance of Mexico: Tourists, Fugitives and Escaping the US 2. Mapping Borders and Identity: Representation, Transformation and Ethnicity 3. Danger, Disappearance and the Exotic: American Travelers and Mexican Migrants PART II: REVOLUTION 4. The Revolutionary Politics of Mexico: Individualism, Communitarianism and Landscape 5. Territory, Colonialism and Gender at the American Frontier PART III: REGULATION 6. Ethnicity, Imperialism and the Law: Policing Identities at the Border 7. Border Cities as Contested Space: Postcolonial Resistance in Tijuana 8. Imperial Journeys and Travelling Shots: Regulation, Power and Mobility Conclusion: Border Films and Border Studies