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Multicultural Masculinities and the Border Romance in John Saylesis Lone Star and Cormac McCarthyis Border Trilogy by Katherine Sugg is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Multicultural Masculinities and the Border Romance in John Saylesis Lone Star and Cormac McCarthyis Border Trilogy about?
"" "" Americas, understandings of the United States as deeply tied to Mexico in cultural, economic, and affective ways are increasingly visible in contemporary popular culture, particularly movies and best-selling novels. For example, two recent films, Traffic and All the Pretty Horses, illustrate a heightened awareness of "Mexico" in the popular imagination, and they follow a long history of Hollywood's representations of Anglos and Mexicans in contact on the border. A number of these films have been called "revisionist Westerns," such as The Wild Bunch (), Giant (), and Treasure of the Sierra Madre (), while others appropriate this southwestern locale into noir-style police pictures (Touch of Evil [], The Border [], and Traffic [], for example). 1 In both instances, the landscape and national iconography of Mexico and/or the social significance of Mexicans create a useful backdrop for dramas concerned with the dilemmas of men and the state on the northern side of the border. Which is to say that in these popular narratives, the invocation of Mexico works to generate a field of difference that produces
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- Author
- Katherine Sugg
- Publisher
- Michigan State University Press; Project Muse (ISSN 1532-687X)
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences