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Border Optics

Surveillance Cultures on the US-Mexico Frontier

By: Camilla Fojas

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Border Optics

Surveillance Cultures on the US-Mexico Frontier

By: Camilla Fojas

Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance When Donald Trump promised to “build a wall” on the U.S.-Mexico border, both supporters and opponents visualized a snaking barrier of concrete cleaving through nearly two thousand miles of arid desert. Though only 4 percent of the US population lives in proximity to the border, imagining what the wall would look like came easily to most Americans, in part because of how images of the border are reproduced and circulated for national audiences. Border Optics considers the US-Mexico border as one of the most visualized and imagined spaces in the US. As a place of continual crisis, permanent visibility, and territorial defense, the border is rendered as a layered visual space of policing—one that is seen from watchtowers, camera-mounted vehicles, helicopters, surveillance balloons, radar systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, and live streaming websites. It is also a space that is visualized across various forms and genres of media, from maps to geographical surveys, military strategic plans, illustrations, photographs, postcards, novels, film, and television, which combine fascination with the region with the visual codes of surveillance and survey. Border Optics elaborates on the expanded vision of the border as a consequence of the interface of militarism, technology, and media. Camilla Fojas describes how the perception of the viewing public is controlled through a booming security-industrial complex made up of entertainment media, local and federal police, prisons and detention centers, the aerospace industry, and all manner of security technology industries. The first study to examine visual codes of surveillance within an analysis of the history and culture of the border region, Border Optics is an innovative and groundbreaking examination of security cultures, race, gender, and colonialism.

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NYU Press

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147980701X

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9781479807017

Islands of Empire

Pop Culture and U.S. Power

By: Camilla Fojas

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Islands of Empire

Pop Culture and U.S. Power

By: Camilla Fojas

Examining a broad range of pop culture media-film, television, journalism, advertisements, travel writing, and literature-Fojas explores the United States as an empire and how it has narrated its relationship to its island territories.

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University of Texas Press

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0292756305

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9780292756304

Migrant Labor and Border Securities in Pop Culture

By: Camilla Fojas

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Migrant Labor and Border Securities in Pop Culture

By: Camilla Fojas

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Border Securities, Migrant Labor, and Crisis Capitalism -- 1 Border Securities and Unsecure Labor -- 2 Migrant Domestics and Gendered Work in Crisis Capitalism -- 3 Border Futures -- Epilogue: Beyond Security -- Works Cited -- Index.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351607693

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9781351607698

Zombies, Migrants, and Queers

Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture

By: Camilla Fojas

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Zombies, Migrants, and Queers

Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture

By: Camilla Fojas

The alarm and anxiety unleashed by the Great Recession found fascinating expression across popular culture. Harried survivors negotiated societal collapse in The Walking Dead. Middle-class whites crossed the literal and metaphorical Mexican border on Breaking Bad or coped with a lack of freedom among the marginalized on Orange Is the New Black. Camilla Fojas uses representations of people of color, the incarcerated, and trans/queers--vulnerable populations all--to work through the contradictions created by the economic crisis and its freefalling aftermath. Television, film, advertising, and media coverage of the crisis created a distinct kind of story about capitalism and the violence that supports it. Fojas shows how these pop culture moments reshaped social dynamics and people's economic sensibilities and connects the ways pop culture reflected economic devastation. She also examines how these artifacts illuminated parts of society usually kept off-screen or on the margins even as they defaulted to stories of white protagonists.

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268

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University of Illinois Press

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0252099443

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9780252099441

Border Bandits

Hollywood on the Southern Frontier

By: Camilla Fojas

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Border Bandits

Hollywood on the Southern Frontier

By: Camilla Fojas

The southern frontier is one of the most emotionally charged zones in the United States, second only to its historical predecessor and partner, the western frontier. Though they span many genres, border films share common themes, trace the mood swings of public policy, and shape our cultural agenda. In this examination, Camilla Fojas studies how major Hollywood films exploit the border between Mexico and the United States to tell a story about U.S. dominance in the American hemisphere. She charts the shift from the mythos of the open western frontier to that of the embattled southern frontier by offering in-depth analyses of particular border films, from post-World War II Westerns to drug-trafficking films to contemporary Latino/a cinema, within their historical and political contexts. Fojas argues that Hollywood border films do important social work by offering a cinematic space through which viewers can manage traumatic and undesirable histories and ultimately reaffirm core "American" values. At the same time, these border narratives delineate opposing values and ideas. Latino border films offer a critical vantage onto these topics; they challenge the presumptions of U.S. nationalism and subsequent cultural attitudes about immigrants and immigration, and often critically reconstruct their Hollywood kin. By analyzing films such as Duel in the Sun, The Wild Bunch, El Norte, The Border, Traffic, and Brokeback Mountain, Fojas demands that we reexamine the powerful mythology of the Hollywood borderlands. This detailed scrutiny recognizes that these films are part of a national narrative comprised of many texts and symbols that create the myth of the United States as capital of the Americas.

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University of Texas Press

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0292781954

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9780292781955

Migrant Labor and Border Securities in Pop Culture

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Zombies, Migrants, and Queers

Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture

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University of Illinois Press

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Border Optics

Surveillance Cultures on the US-Mexico Frontier

By: Camilla Fojas

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Surveillance Cultures on the US-Mexico Frontier

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Border Optics

Border Optics

Islands of Empire

Islands of Empire

Migrant Labor and Border Securities in Pop Culture

Migrant Labor and Border Securities in Pop Culture

Zombies, Migrants, and Queers

Zombies, Migrants, and Queers

Border Bandits

Border Bandits

Migrant Labor and Border Securities in Pop Culture

Migrant Labor and Border Securities in Pop Culture

Zombies, Migrants, and Queers

Zombies, Migrants, and Queers

Border Optics

Border Optics

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