Stephanie Fuller

The US-Mexico Border in American Cold War Film: Romance, Revolution, and Regulation - Screening Spaces Stephanie Fuller 1st ed. 2015 edition

Marc Notes: Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of East Anglia.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; Includes filmography. Table of Contents: Introduction: Screening the Spaces of the US-Mexico BorderPART I: ROMANCE1. The Romance of Mexico: Tourists, Fugitives and Escaping the US2. Mapping Borders and Identity: Representation, Transformation and Ethnicity3. Danger, Disappearance and the Exotic: American Travelers and Mexican MigrantsPART II: REVOLUTION4. The Revolutionary Politics of Mexico: Individualism, Communitarianism and Landscape5. Territory, Colonialism and Gender at the American FrontierPART III: REGULATION6. Ethnicity, Imperialism and the Law: Policing Identities at the Border7. Border Cities as Contested Space: Postcolonial Resistance in Tijuana8. Imperial Journeys and Travelling Shots: Regulation, Power and MobilityConclusion: Border Films and Border Studies Biographical Note: 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. Publisher Marketing: The 1950s saw perhaps the largest number of American films set on and around the US-Mexico border of any period of the twentieth century. Many of these films engaged with Cold War politics as they explored the relationship between the US and Mexico through ideas of romance, revolution, and regulation. With 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 US-Mexico border meant within the American cultural imaginary and the ways in which it worked to produce the border. Fuller illustrates how a particular cinematic location provides a new way of investigating cultural politics.