Global Trafficking Networks on Film and Television: Hollywood’s Cartel Wars

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
	References
		Films cited
		Television shows cited
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
	Suggested viewing
	References
		Films cited
		Television shows cited
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
	Suggested viewing
	References
		Films cited
		Television shows cited
3. From Weeds to Ozark: The suburbs, threatened
	Weeds and the pot entrepreneur
	Ozark and the problem with greed
	Conclusion: when trafficking preserves privilege
	Suggested viewing
	References
		Films cited
		Television shows cited
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
	Recommended viewing
	References
		Films cited
		Television shows cited
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
	Suggested viewing
	References
		Films cited
		Television shows cited
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
	Suggested viewing
	References
		Films cited
		Television shows cited
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
	Suggested viewing
	References
		Films cited
		Television shows cited
		Video game cited
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
	Suggested viewing
	References
		Films cited
		Television shows cited
		Video game cited
Postscript: Cartel media beyond Hollywood
	Suggested viewing
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	Television shows cited
Index