Border Bandits: Hollywood on the Southern Frontier Review

Border Bandits: Hollywood on the Southern Frontier by Camilla Fojas (249 pages)
My Rating: 3 Stars
Date Read: 27 April 2016

Synopsis:

This title is an examination of how major Hollywood films exploit the border between Mexico and the United States to tell a story about US dominance in the Western hemisphere.

My Rating:

This book primarily focused on films set on the border of California and Mexico, specifically in Los Angeles and San Diego. Again, it was interesting to see how films document or change real life in their creations. Immigrants who want to get into the industry are often type casted and not given many opportunities to do much else. Some of the films discussed touched on that subject. This book focused less on the crossing of borders than what happens after. Fojas wanted to inform her readers about the struggles immigrants continuously have to deal with even after they get across the border. The chapter that was most interesting to me would have to be chapter four because it made me think more about how films mirror the issues going on today more than I had expected.