Border Bandits: Hollywood on the Southern Frontier
Autor Camilla Fojasen Limba Engleză Paperback – dec 2008
In this examination, Camilla Fojas studies how major Hollywood films exploit the border between Mexico and the United States to tell a story about U.S. dominance in the American hemisphere. She charts the shift from the mythos of the open western frontier to that of the embattled southern frontier by offering in-depth analyses of particular border films, from post-World War II Westerns to drug-trafficking films to contemporary Latino/a cinema, within their historical and political contexts.
Fojas argues that Hollywood border films do important social work by offering a cinematic space through which viewers can manage traumatic and undesirable histories and ultimately reaffirm core "American" values. At the same time, these border narratives delineate opposing values and ideas.
Latino border films offer a critical vantage onto these topics; they challenge the presumptions of U.S. nationalism and subsequent cultural attitudes about immigrants and immigration, and often critically reconstruct their Hollywood kin.
By analyzing films such as Duel in the Sun, The Wild Bunch, El Norte, The Border, Traffic, and Brokeback Mountain, Fojas demands that we reexamine the powerful mythology of the Hollywood borderlands. This detailed scrutiny recognizes that these films are part of a national narrative comprised of many texts and symbols that create the myth of the United States as capital of the Americas.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292718630
ISBN-10: 0292718632
Pagini: 249
Ilustrații: 31 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 0292718632
Pagini: 249
Ilustrații: 31 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
Camilla Fojas is an associate professor of media studies and affiliated faculty in American studies at the University of Virginia.
Cuprins
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Welcome to the Alamo; Hollywood on the Border
- Chapter One: How the Southwest Was Won; Border Westerns and the Southern Frontier
- Chapter Two: "The Imaginary Illegal Alien"; Hollywood Border Crossers and Buddy Cops in the 1980s
- Chapter Three: The "Narc" in All of Us; Border Media and the War on Drugs
- Chapter Four: Urban Frontiers; Border Cinema and the Global City
- Conclusion: Frontier Myths on the Line; Border Cinema Redux
- Notes
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
Descriere
An examination of how major Hollywood films exploit the border between Mexico and the United States to tell a story about U.S. dominance in the Western hemisphere.