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The US-Mexico Border in American Cold War Film: Romance, Revolution, and Regulation
Stephanie Fuller
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Description for The US-Mexico Border in American Cold War Film: Romance, Revolution, and Regulation
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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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Screening Spaces
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137538567
SKU
V9781137538567
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Ref
99-15
About Stephanie Fuller
Stephanie Fuller received her PhD in film studies at the University of East Anglia, UK and her MA film studies with distinction from University College London, UK. Her work has been published in the Journal of Popular Film and Television, and the Journal of American Studies. Her research interests include Hollywood cinema, transnational media, cultural geography, urban studies, and Mexican ... Read more
Reviews for The US-Mexico Border in American Cold War Film: Romance, Revolution, and Regulation
"We have before us a book of sustained promise. In looking south instead of east (and north rather than west) Fuller studies a variety of situations and stereotypes whose force of expression is found not in genre or storyline but in spatial displacement and movement, interconnection, interrelation, intercession, and the like. She takes up films that perhaps only human and ... Read more