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Subject(s)

• Popular culture—United States—History—20th century [Browse]
• Mexican-American Border Region—Civilization [Browse]
• Mexican-American Border Region—In art [Browse]
• Mexican-American Border Region—In literature [Browse]
• Mexican-American Border Region—In mass media [Browse]
• Mexican-American Border Region—Politics and government [Browse]
• United States—Relations—Mexico [Browse]
• Mexico—Relations—United States [Browse]

Series

• Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 1. [More in this series]
• Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 1 [More in this series]

Summary note

Offers an illustrated study that asks how the art produced about the U.S.-Mexico border reflects political and economic transformations occurring world-wide.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-182) and index.

Contents

• Cultural exemptions, cultural solutions
• Establishing shots of the border: the fence and the river
• U.S.
• Mexico border conflict in U.S. popular culture: recodifications of the revolution and the Porfiriato
• Narratives of cross-border migration during the Revolution's developmentalist phase
• Mass media, site-specificity, and representations of the U.S.-Mexico border
• Appendix: videos about free trade and related issues.

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ISBN

• 0816629986 ((acid-free paper))
• 9780816629985 ((acid-free paper))
• 0816629994 ((pbk. ; : acid-free paper))
• 9780816629992 ((pbk. ; : acid-free paper))

LCCN

98050312

OCLC

40452958

International Article Number

• 9780816629992

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