Global Trafficking Networks on Film and Television - Hollywoods Cartel Wars

This book draws on a multi-method study of film and television narratives of global criminal networks to explore the links between audiovisual media, criminal networks and global audiences in the age of digital content distribution.

List of contents

Introduction: cartel media 1. How Touch of Evil set the rules for Hollywood cartel cinema 2. Cartel westerns: the new frontier (South of the border) 3. From Weeds to Ozark: the suburbs, threatened 4. Queen of the South: doing linguistic mish-mash and "Mexican face" 5. Walter White and the use of Brown bodies in Breaking Bad 6. The Sicario saga and chromatic othering 7. Netflix’s Narcos: cartel media in the age of digital distribution 8. "El Chapo" gets the Netflix treatment: theorising cartel mythologies Postscript: cartel media beyond Hollywood

About the author

César Albarrán-Torres is a Mexican-Australian scholar and film critic. He is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, where he teaches Global Screen Studies. He has been widely published in academic and non-academic titles as a film and literary critic, author and translator. His current research focuses on film and television, as well as the negotiations between social media and politics in Mexico, particularly concerning the drug cartels. His book Digital Gambling: Theorizing Gamble-Play Media was published in April 2018. He is editor at the online journal Senses of Cinema.

Summary

This book draws on a multi-method study of film and television narratives of global criminal networks to explore the links between audiovisual media, criminal networks and global audiences in the age of digital content distribution.

Product details

• Authors: Cesar (Swinburne University of Te Albarran-Torres, César Albarrán-Torres
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.2023
• EAN: 9780367714482
• ISBN: 978-0-367-71448-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Advances in Television Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society