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Exploring representations of Latinx people from
Scarface to
Narcos, this book examines how pop culture has framed Latin America as the villain in America’s long and ineffectual War on Drugs.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. “Say Goodnight to the Bad Guy”: South Florida, Cocaine, and the Many Faces of Scarface
- Chapter 2. Miami Vices: Whiteness and Otherness in Representing the Criminalized City
- Chapter 3. “The Most Alive Dead Man in the World”: Plotting the Death of Pablo Escobar
- Chapter 4. Dancing toward Revenge: Queer Representation and What It Means to Be Seen in Narcomedia
- Chapter 5. Dark Matters: Breaking Bad and the Suburban Crime Drama
- Chapter 6. Bad Hombres: Narcomedia at the US-Mexico Border
- Chapter 7. From Public Enemy to Global Media Commodity: Pablo Escobar Transformed
- Epilogue. “It’s Time for a White Man to Leave the Building”: Centering Latinidad in Narcomedia
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Jason Ruiz is an associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of
Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural Politics of Empire.
