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Border Tunnels - A Media Theory of the U.s.-Mexico Underground

English · Paperback / Softback

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"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"--

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Contents
Introduction: A Media Theory of the Border Tunnel
1. TV News and Spectacle
2. Reality TV and Performativity
3. Digital Animation and Plasticity
4. First-Person Shooters and Racialization
5. Speculative Design and Sustainability
Conclusion: Media Theory from the Border Tunnel
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index


About the author










Juan Llamas-Rodriguez is assistant professor of global media in the Annenberg School for Communication and affiliated faculty with the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.


Product details

Authors Juan Llamas-Rodriguez
Publisher University Of Minnesota Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.11.2023
 
EAN 9781517914295
ISBN 978-1-5179-1429-5
No. of pages 272
Subjects Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society
Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science

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