Borderlands Media
Cinema and Literature as Opposition to the Oppression of Immigrants- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2012
Summary
David E. Toohey’s Borderlands Media: Cinema and Literature as Opposition to the Oppression of Immigrants is an in-depth analysis which explores the immigrant experience using a mixture of cinema, literary, and other artistic media spanning from 1958 onward.
Toohey begins with Orson Welles’s 1958 Touch of Evil, which triggered a wave of protest resulting in Chicana/o filmmakers acting out against the racism against immigrant and diaspora communities. The study then adds policy documents and social science scholarship to the mix, both to clarify and oppose undesirable elements in these forms of thought. Through extensive analysis and explication, Toohey uncovers a history of power ranging from lingual and visual to more widely recognized class and racial divisions. These divisions are analyzed both with an emphasis on how they oppress, but also how cinematic political thought can challenge them, with special attention to the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. David E. Toohey’s Borderlands Media is an essential text for scholars and students engaged in questions regarding the effect of media on the oppression of immigrants and diaspora communities.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2012
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-4951-5
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7391-4953-9
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 333
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Table of Contents No access
- Preface No access
- Chapter 1: Theoretical and Literature Review No access Pages 1 - 56
- Chapter 2: Methodology No access Pages 57 - 84
- Chapter 3: When the Border Follows Immigrants No access Pages 85 - 108
- Chapter 4: Neo-Baroque Law and Violent Border Spaces No access Pages 109 - 144
- Chapter 5: Citizenship and “Legitimate” Speakers in I.R. No access Pages 145 - 172
- Chapter 6: Jim Crow and Neo-Racism No access Pages 173 - 196
- Chapter 7: Re-Linking Time and Space No access Pages 197 - 220
- Chapter 8: La Facultdad and Meta-Racism No access Pages 221 - 250
- Chapter 9: Conclusion No access Pages 251 - 270
- Epilogue: Cinematic Border Interference No access Pages 271 - 294
- Glossary No access Pages 295 - 302
- Bibliography No access Pages 303 - 324
- Index No access Pages 325 - 332
- About the Author No access Pages 333 - 333





