Multicultural Masculinities and the Border Romance in John Saylesis Lone Star and Cormac McCarthyis Border Trilogy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3874282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katherine Sugg (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 117-154 |
| Publication date | 2001-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | CR The New Centennial Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-687X • E-ISSN: 1539-6630 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/ncr.2003.0071 |
| OpenAlex | W1975715133 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 12 |
UNDER THE RUBRIC OF "GLOBALISM" OR "MULTICULTURALISM" IN THE Americas, understandings of the United States as deeply tied to Mexico in cultural, economic, and affective ways are increasingly visible in contemporary popular culture, particularly movies and best-selling novels. For example, two recent films, Traffic and All the Pretty Horses, illustrate a heightened awareness of "Mexico" in the popular imagination, and they follow a long history of Hollywood's representations of Anglos and Mexicans in contact on the border. A number of these films have been called "revisionist Westerns," such as The Wild Bunch (1969), Giant (1956),and Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), while others appropriate this southwestern locale into noir-style police pictures (Touch of Evil [1958], The Border [1982], and Traffic [2000], for example). 1 In both instances, the landscape and national iconography of Mexico and/or the social significance of Mexicans create a useful backdrop for dramas concerned with the dilemmas of men and the state on the northern side of the border. Which is to say that in these popular narratives, the invocation of Mexico works to generate a field of difference that [End Page 117] produces and recuperates U.S. national mythologies of American culture, manhood, and national identity. 2
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Hollywood · Literature · Media studies · Multiculturalism · Mythology · National identity · Political science · Politics · Popular culture · Romance · Sociology · Trilogy · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Latin American Literature Studies · Law · Modern American Literature Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2007 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |