The US-Mexico Border in American Cold War Film

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.

Auteur
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 cinema.

Contenu

Introduction: Screening the Spaces of the US-Mexico Border PART I: ROMANCE 1. The Romance of Mexico: Tourists, Fugitives and Escaping the US 2. Mapping Borders and Identity: Representation, Transformation and Ethnicity 3. Danger, Disappearance and the Exotic: American Travelers and Mexican Migrants PART II: REVOLUTION 4. The Revolutionary Politics of Mexico: Individualism, Communitarianism and Landscape 5. Territory, Colonialism and Gender at the American Frontier PART III: REGULATION 6. Ethnicity, Imperialism and the Law: Policing Identities at the Border 7. Border Cities as Contested Space: Postcolonial Resistance in Tijuana 8. Imperial Journeys and Travelling Shots: Regulation, Power and Mobility Conclusion: Border Films and Border Studies