Narcomedia : Latinidad, popular culture, and America's war on drugs / Jason Ruiz.
"The author employs methodologies from media studies and Latinx studies to examine how Latinx people have been portrayed for decades in movies and on television as being at the center of America's War on Drugs"--
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Latinx (Series)
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Table of 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
- Epilogue. "It's time for a white man to leave the building" : centering latinidad in narcomedia
- Selected filmography.