The US-Mexico border in American Cold War film : romance, revolution, and regulation

The US-Mexico border in American Cold War film romance, revolution, and regulation

Introduction: screening the spaces of the US-Mexico borderRomance. The romance of Mexico: tourists, fugitives and escaping the US -- Mapping borders and identity: representation, transformation and ethnicity -- Danger, disappearance and the exotic: American travelers and Mexican migrants -- Revoluti...

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1. Verfasser: Fuller, Stephanie (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan 2015
Schriftenreihe:Screening spaces
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Motion pictures > History > Borderlands in motion pictures > Tourism in motion pictures > Immigrants in motion pictures > Aliens in motion pictures > Mexican-American Border Region > In motion pictures > USA > Film > Ost-West-Konflikt > Grenzgebiet > Mexiko
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: screening the spaces of the US-Mexico borderRomance. The romance of Mexico: tourists, fugitives and escaping the US -- Mapping borders and identity: representation, transformation and ethnicity -- Danger, disappearance and the exotic: American travelers and Mexican migrants -- Revolution. The revolutionary politics of Mexico: individualism, communitarianism and landscape -- Territory, colonialism and gender at the American frontier -- Regulation. Ethnicity, imperialism and the law: policing identities at the border -- Border cities as contested space: postcolonial resistance in Tijuana -- Imperial journeys and travelling shots: regulation, power and mobility -- Conclusion: border films and border studies.
Introduction: screening the spaces of the US-Mexico border -- Romance. The romance of Mexico: tourists, fugitives and escaping the US -- Mapping borders and identity: representation, transformation and ethnicity -- Danger, disappearance and the exotic: American travelers and Mexican migrants -- Revolution. The revolutionary politics of Mexico: individualism, communitarianism and landscape -- Territory, colonialism, and gender at the American frontier -- Ethnicity, imperialism, and the law: policing identities at the border -- Border cities as contested space: postcolonial resistance in Tijuana -- Imperial journeys and travelling shots: regulation, power and mobility -- Conclusion: border films and border studies -- Appendix A: Indicative list of Cold War border films
Beschreibung:Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of East Anglia
Includes bibliographical references and index -- Includes filmography
Beschreibung:VI, 232 S.
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ISBN:9781137538567
978-1-137-53856-7