Fojas, Camilla, 1971-

Border bandits Hollywood on the southern frontier / [electronic resource] : Camilla Fojas. - 1st ed. - Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2008. - xi, 235 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-225) and index.

Welcome to the alamo : Hollywood on the border -- How the Southwest was won : border westerns and the southern frontier -- "The imaginary illegal alien" : Hollywood border crossers and buddy cops in the 1980s -- The "narc" in all of us : border media and the War on drugs -- Urban frontiers : border cinema and the global city -- Frontier myths on the line : border cinema redux.


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Motion pictures--United States.


Mexican-American Border Region--In motion pictures.


Electronic books.

PN1995.9.M48 / F65 2008eb

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