UID:
almahu_9949386774102882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781003024217
,
1003024211
,
100035251X
,
9781000352511
,
1000352498
,
9781000352504
,
1000352501
,
9781000352498
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Television Studies
Content:
"This book draws on a multi-method study of film and television narratives of global criminal networks to explore the links between audiovisual media, criminal networks and global audiences in the age of digital content distribution. Mapping out media representations of the ongoing war on drugs in Mexico and the United States, the author delves into the social, cultural and geo-political impacts of distribution and consumption of these media. With a particular emphasis on the globalized Mexican cartels, this book investigates three areas - gender and racial representation in film and television; the digital distribution of content through the Internet and streaming services such as Hulu and Netflix; and depictions of extreme violence in film, television and online spaces - to identify whether there are fundamental similarities and differences in how Hollywood productions reproduce stereotypes about race, gender, and extreme violence. Some of the texts analysed are Breaking Bad, Ozark, Weeds, Rambo: Last Blood, No Country for Old Men, Sicario, and the Netflix series Narcos, Narcos: Mexico and El Chapo. Taking a unique interdisciplinary approach to the study of cartels in the media, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of media studies, film, television, security studies, Latin American and cultural studies"--
Note:
How Touch of evil sets the rules for Hollywood cartel cinema -- Cartel westerns: the new frontier (South of the border) -- From Weeds to Ozark: the suburbs threatened -- Queen of the South: doing linguistics mish-mash and 'Mexican face' -- Walter White and the use of brown bodies in Breaking Bad -- The Sicario saga and chromatic othering -- Netflix's Narcos: cartel media in the age of digital distribution -- "El Chapo" gets the Netfix treatment: theorising cartel mythologies -- Postscript: Cartel media beyond Hollywood.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Albarrán-Torres, César. Global trafficking networks on film and television Abingdon, Oxon New York : Routledge, 2021. ISBN 9780367904050
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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History.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003024217
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003024217
