Film and Digital Media

FILM 163 Movies on the Border

Surveys a range of cinematic representations of the US-Mexico border region from the 1950s to the present-Hollywood, independent, Chicano/Latino, Mexican. Examines border as concrete physical (trans)location, site of metaphor and projection, and trope for new ways of knowing and being.

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to film and digital media and Latin American and Latino studies majors.

Credits

5

Instructor

Julianne Burton-Carvajal