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Border Tunnels : A Media Theory of the U. S. -Mexico Underground / Juan Llamas-Rodriguez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Llamas-Rodriguez, Juan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Border crossing in mass media.
- Borderlands in mass media.
- Tunnels in mass media.
- Mexican-American Border Region--In mass media.
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Analyzing the technologies, institutional politics, narrative tropes, and aesthetic decisions that go into showing border tunnels across multiple forms of media, Juan Llamas-Rodriguez argues that we cannot properly address border issues without attending to-and fully understanding-the fraught relationship between their representation and reality"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : a media theory of the border tunnel
- TV news and spectacle
- Reality TV and performativity
- Digital animation and plasticity
- First-person shooters and racialization
- Speculative design and sustainability
- Conclusion : media theory from the border tunnel.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Llamas-Rodriguez, Juan Border Tunnels
- ISBN:
- 9781452969770
- 1452969779
- 9781452969763
- 1452969760
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