Albarrán-Torres, César,
Global Trafficking Networks on Film and Television : Hollywood's Cartel Wars / César Albarrán-Torres. - 1st. - 1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations. - Routledge Advances in Television Studies .
Introduction. Cartel media Chapter 1. How Touch of Evil set the rules for Hollywood cartel cinema Chapter 2. Cartel westerns: The new frontier (South of the border) Chapter 3. From Weeds to Ozark : The suburbs, threatened Chapter 4. Queen of the South : Doing linguistic mish-mash and 'Mexican face' Chapter 5. Walter White and the use of Brown bodies in Breaking Bad ; Chapter 6. The Sicario saga and chromatic othering Chapter 7. Netflix's Narcos : Cartel media in the age of digital distribution Chapter 8. "El Chapo" gets the Netflix treatment: Theorising cartel mythologies Postscript. Cartel media beyond Hollywood
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 geopolitical 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 movies and television series 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.
9781000352511 100035251X 9781003024217 1003024211 9781000352504 1000352501 9781000352498 1000352498
10.4324/9781003024217 doi
Drug traffic in motion pictures.
Organized crime in motion pictures.
Organized crime on television.
Drug traffic on television.
Motion pictures--History.--United States
Television programs--History.--United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies
Mexico--In motion pictures.
Mexico--On television.
PN1995.9.D777
791.43/6556
Global Trafficking Networks on Film and Television : Hollywood's Cartel Wars / César Albarrán-Torres. - 1st. - 1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations. - Routledge Advances in Television Studies .
Introduction. Cartel media Chapter 1. How Touch of Evil set the rules for Hollywood cartel cinema Chapter 2. Cartel westerns: The new frontier (South of the border) Chapter 3. From Weeds to Ozark : The suburbs, threatened Chapter 4. Queen of the South : Doing linguistic mish-mash and 'Mexican face' Chapter 5. Walter White and the use of Brown bodies in Breaking Bad ; Chapter 6. The Sicario saga and chromatic othering Chapter 7. Netflix's Narcos : Cartel media in the age of digital distribution Chapter 8. "El Chapo" gets the Netflix treatment: Theorising cartel mythologies Postscript. Cartel media beyond Hollywood
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 geopolitical 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 movies and television series 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.
9781000352511 100035251X 9781003024217 1003024211 9781000352504 1000352501 9781000352498 1000352498
10.4324/9781003024217 doi
Drug traffic in motion pictures.
Organized crime in motion pictures.
Organized crime on television.
Drug traffic on television.
Motion pictures--History.--United States
Television programs--History.--United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies
Mexico--In motion pictures.
Mexico--On television.
PN1995.9.D777
791.43/6556