Introduction: Border óptica, or seeing like a state -- Borderveillant media -- Drone futures : alien vs predator -- Wild border : surveillant ecologies -- Imperial border optics -- Coda: Border futures : seeing and foreseeing
Camilla Fojas Livres
Camilla Fojas est professeure associée d'études médiatiques et membre affiliée de la faculté d'études américaines à l'Université de Virginie. Son travail examine de manière critique l'interaction complexe entre les médias, la culture et l'identité. Elle explore comment les médias façonnent notre compréhension du monde et de nous-mêmes, offrant des perspectives perspicaces sur la société contemporaine. Les recherches de Fojas explorent les manières nuancées dont les récits médiatiques influencent la perception du public et l'expérience personnelle.
Zombies, Migrants, and Queers
- 184pages
- 7 heures de lecture
The alarm and anxiety unleashed by the Great Recession found fascinating expression across popular culture. Harried survivors negotiated societal collapse in The Walking Dead. Middle-class whites crossed the literal and metaphorical Mexican border on Breaking Bad or coped with a lack of freedom among the marginalized on Orange Is the New Black. Camilla Fojas uses representations of people of color, the incarcerated, and trans/queers--vulnerable populations all--to work through the contradictions created by the economic crisis and its freefalling aftermath. Television, film, advertising, and media coverage of the crisis created a distinct kind of story about capitalism and the violence that supports it. Fojas shows how these pop culture moments reshaped social dynamics and people's economic sensibilities and connects the ways pop culture reflected economic devastation. She also examines how these artifacts illuminated parts of society usually kept off-screen or on the margins even as they defaulted to stories of white protagonists.