This agile and cultivated text constitutes a new piece in the complex puzzle of interpretations regarding the meaning of border life and its representations."-Norma V. Then it is a movie about the choices we make in life and the choices that other people make for us. This is, first of all, an electrifying and poignant love story. Through a series of vignettes, this book takes a fluid historical journey across the different ways this border has been represented in the cinema. Witness comes billed as a thriller, but it's so much more than a thriller that I wish they hadn't even used the word 'murder' in the ads. "This fresh look at border cinema combines personal memories and affective experiences on the US-Mexico border with film interpretation. It serves as an invaluable archive discussing the role that cinema has had in shaping an understanding of the stereotypes, misconceptions, and realities of the border on both sides."-Ron Rael, Chair of the Department of Art Practice and Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley The author devotes a good deal of the book to the US's relationship with immigrants, the border patrol, and Mexican officials, providing readers with a firm understanding of the difficulties surrounding the failed policies and procedures currently taking place at the border." - CHOICE" Border Witness is an important primer for those interested in the evolution of the borderlands as told through film and the stories connected to its people, culture, politics, and ecology. Reviews "Dear’s book is a magnificent chronicle of borderlands films over a century that should be a “must-read” for border scholars and perhaps used not only in film classes but also in border studies courses to supplement the often-dry readings assigned in our twenty-first century visual world." - Journal of Borderlands Studies "A deep historical context along with solid cinematic summaries of a less discussed cinematic genre: the border film. From early silent films to virtual reality, and from revolution to the present global crisis, border films provide fresh evidence for real and imagined politics and for envisioning future transborder architectures carved from in-between spaces. In an era of global geopolitics that favors walls and war over diplomacy, Dear's insights have relevance for borders around the world. A geographer and activist, Dear adopts an accessible and engaged perspective, combining the stories told by these films with insights drawn from his own decades-long research and travel. Despite his urban grit, he slowly assimilates and forms a romantic attachment with the childs lovely mother. Assist a quiet detective in a Pennsylvania Dutch town. Blending film studies with political and cultural geography, Michael Dear investigates the making of cross-border identity and community in the territories between two nations.īorder Witness introduces a new "border film" genre just now entering its golden age. The only witness to a terrible murder in a Philadelphia train station restroom must be safeguarded. What a century of border films teaches about the real and imagined worlds of the US-Mexico borderlands-and how this understanding helps build better relations across boundaries.īorder Witness is an account of cultural collision and fusion between Mexico and the United States, as seen on the ground and in films from the past hundred years.
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