Borderland Films: American Cinema, Mexico, and Canada During the Progressive Era - Rilegato

Bregent-heald, Dominique

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ISBN 10: 0803276737 ISBN 13: 9780803276734

Casa editrice: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 2015

Riassunto

The concept of North American borderlands in the cultural imagination fluctuated greatly during the Progressive Era as it was affected by similarly changing concepts of identity and geopolitical issues influenced by the Mexican Revolution and the First World War. Such shifts became especially evident in films set along the Mexican and Canadian borders as filmmakers explored how these changes simultaneously represented and influenced views of society at large.

Borderland Films examines the intersection of North American borderlands and culture as portrayed through early twentieth-century cinema. Drawing on hundreds of films, Dominique Brégent-Heald investigates the significance of national borders; the ever-changing concepts of race, gender, and enforced boundaries; the racialized ideas of criminality that painted the borderlands as unsafe and in need of control; and the wars that showed how international conflict significantly influenced the United States’ relations with its immediate neighbors. Borderland Films provides a fresh perspective on American cinematic, cultural, and political history and on how cinema contributed to the establishment of societal narratives in the early twentieth century.

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L'autore:

Dominique Brégent-Heald is an associate professor of history at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her articles have appeared inFrontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, American Review of Canadian Studies,Western Historical Quarterly, Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, andJournal of American Culture.

 

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• Editore: Univ of Nebraska Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0803276737
• ISBN 13: 9780803276734
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 436