Jason Ruiz

Narcomedia

Latinidad, Popular Culture, and America's War on Drugs

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring representations of Latinx people from Scarface to Narcos, this book examines how pop culture has framed Latin America as the villain in Americaâ s long and ineffectual War on Drugs.

Produktdetails

• Latinx: The Future Is Now
• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 149mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9781477328194
• ISBN-10: 147732819X
• Artikelnr.: 67747217

Autorenporträt

Jason Ruiz

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1. “Say Goodnight to the Bad Guy”: South Florida, Cocaine,
and the Many Faces of Scarface
* Chapter 2. Miami Vices: Whiteness and Otherness in Representing the
Criminalized City
* Chapter 3. “The Most Alive Dead Man in the World”: Plotting the Death
of Pablo Escobar
* Chapter 4. Dancing toward Revenge: Queer Representation and What It
Means to Be Seen in Narcomedia
* Chapter 5. Dark Matters: Breaking Bad and the Suburban Crime Drama
* Chapter 6. Bad Hombres: Narcomedia at the US-Mexico Border
* Chapter 7. From Public Enemy to Global Media Commodity: Pablo Escobar
Transformed
* Epilogue. “It’s Time for a White Man to Leave the Building”:
Centering Latinidad in Narcomedia
* Acknowledgments
* Notes
* Selected Filmography
* Bibliography
* Index