Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Cartel media
Cartel mediascapes
Orientalism in cartel media
Book structure: understanding Hollywood's cartel wars
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1. How Touch of Evil set the rules for Hollywood cartel cinema
Seedy border tales
Charlton Heston doing brownface in dark, exotic, dangerous Mexico
Mike Vargas and the "lawful cop" trope
From Welles' Touch of Evil to Soderbergh's Traffic: the genealogy of Hollywood cartel cinema
Conclusion
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2. Cartel Westerns: The new frontier (South of the border)
"Amexica", the mythic site of the cartel Western
No Country for Old Men: brown corpses as background
The Last Stand and Rambo: Last Blood: 1980s strongmen fighting the cartels
Conclusion: Clint Eastwood's last stand
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3. From Weeds to Ozark: The suburbs, threatened
Weeds and the pot entrepreneur
Ozark and the problem with greed
Conclusion: when trafficking preserves privilege
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4. Queen of the South: Doing linguistic mish-mash and "Mexican face"
Se habla español, but you must speak English
Queen of the South, or when any Mexican-sounding dialogue will do
Linguistic mish-mash and "Mexican face" in Queen of the South
Conclusion
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5. Walter White and the use of Brown bodies in Breaking Bad
White bodies as worthy
Black and Brown bodies as conduits for white salvation
Walter's baptism of blood
Brown bodies as expendable, subhuman
Conclusion
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6. The Sicario saga and chromatic othering
The border and "chromatic othering"
Sicario and the border as infestation of "bad hombres"
Sicario: Day of the Soldado: a cautionary tale for the Trump era
Conclusion
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7. Netflix's Narcos: Cartel media in the age of digital distribution
Pablo Escobar: screen icon and cartel media commodity
Building El Jefe de Jefes as a cartel entrepreneur
Conclusion: Netflix or franchising history
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8. "El Chapo" gets the Netflix treatment: Theorising cartel mythologies
El Chapo in the Sinaloan imaginary
El Chapo does Netflix: when cartel crime equals political corruption
Narcos: Mexico or the origins of the myth
Conclusion: Cartel leaders as media commodities
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Postscript: Cartel media beyond Hollywood
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Index