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

"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"--

List of contents

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