"Select filmography": pages 232-233. Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-241) and index.
Contents:
"Say goodnight to the bad guy" : South Florida, cocaine, and the many faces of Scarface -- Miami vices : Whiteness and otherness in representing the criminalized city -- "The most alive dead man in the world" : Plotting the death of Pablo Escobar -- Dancing toward revenge : Queer representation and what it means to be seen in narcomedia -- Dark matters : Breaking Bad and the suburban crime drama -- Bad hombres : Narcomedia at the US-Mexico border -- From public enemy to global media commodity : Pablo Escobar transformed -- "It's time for a white man to leave the building" : Centering latinidad in narcomedia.
Summary:
"If there is an enemy in the War on Drugs, it is people of color. That is the lesson of forty years of cultural production in the United States. From Scarface and Miami Vice to Narcos and Better Call Saul, and from social media to gritty memoirs, popular culture continually positions Latinos as an alien people who threaten the US body politic with drugs. Jason Ruiz explores the creation and endurance of this trope, its effects on Latin Americans and Latinx people, and its role in the cultural politics of the War on Drugs." -- Provided by publisher.
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