Offers an illustrated study that asks how the art produced about the U.S.-Mexico border reflects political and economic transformations occurring world-wide.
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ISBN:9780816629992 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN:0816629994 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN:9780816629985 (acid-free paper)
ISBN:0816629986 (acid-free paper)
Physical Description:x, 188 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. print
Publisher:Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1999]
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-182) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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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