Across the Border: American and Mexican identities through cinema

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Supervisors

de Wilde d'Estmael, Tanguy

Faculty

Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales, politiques et de communication

Degree label

Master [120] en sciences politiques, orientation relations internationales

Abstract

This research focuses on the portrayal of Mexican and American identities in regard to the border, through cinema. It adopts a poststructuralist approach in the analysis of six films: Desierto, The Three Burials of Melquíades Estrada, A Day Without a Mexican, Sicario, The Mexican Dream and Babel. Throughout the study, the importance of popular culture reproductions for the domain of International Relations is highlighted. It focuses on immigration in the post-9/11 period and tries to understand in what sense the identities are represented in each other’s imaginary.