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MAGIC CURTAIN
Thomas Torrans
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Description for MAGIC CURTAIN
Hardcover. This text looks at the United States-Mexico border in fiction, film and song. Borderlands have long served as backgrounds for depicting social instability. They are readily used as backdrops for films, novels, ballads, and tales in which characters shift easily from one culture to another. Num Pages: 312 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; AB; APF; AVQ; FA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 553.
This text looks at the border in fiction, film and song. Borderlands - especially the United States-Mexico borderland - have long served as backgrounds for depicting social instability. And borders, or magic curtains, have readily been fashioned into exotic backdrops for films, novels, ballads, and tales in which characters shift easily from one culture to another. Film epitomizes the escape across the magic curtain. For example ""The Getaway"" shows two characters, Carol and Doc, not only manage the great escape with a satchel full of stolen money, they do it after fleeing the border after a near brush with death. ... Read more
This text looks at the border in fiction, film and song. Borderlands - especially the United States-Mexico borderland - have long served as backgrounds for depicting social instability. And borders, or magic curtains, have readily been fashioned into exotic backdrops for films, novels, ballads, and tales in which characters shift easily from one culture to another. Film epitomizes the escape across the magic curtain. For example ""The Getaway"" shows two characters, Carol and Doc, not only manage the great escape with a satchel full of stolen money, they do it after fleeing the border after a near brush with death. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Fort Worth, United States
ISBN
9780875652573
SKU
V9780875652573
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About Thomas Torrans
THOMAS TORRANS, a retired journalist, lives and writes in Fort Worth, Texas. He is the author of the companion volume Forging the Tortilla Curtain, also published by TCU Press.
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