The US-Mexico Border in American Cold War Film [electronic resource] : Romance, Revolution, and Regulation /
Fuller, Stephanie.author.
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.
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of East Anglia.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography.
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 -- 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.
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.
Ethnology—Latin America.
Civilization—History.
Motion pictures—History.
History, Modern.
United States—History.
Film genres.
Latin American Culture.
Cultural History.
Film History.
Modern History.
US History.
Genre.