Border bandits
Subtitle: Hollywood on the southern frontier
By: Camilla Fojas.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Austin, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780292718623; 9780292718630
Subjects: Motion pictures -- United States; Mexican-American Border Region -- In motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Welcome to the alamo : Hollywood on the border; title: How the Southwest was won : border westerns and the southern frontier; title: "The imaginary illegal alien" : Hollywood border crossers and buddy cops in the 1980s; title: The "narc" in all of us : border media and the War on drugs; title: Urban frontiers :  border cinema and the global city; title: Frontier myths on the line : border cinema redux.