Laura Isabel Serna

Assistant Professor University of Southern California

lserna@cinema.usc.edu

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In Media Res

La Venganza De Pancho Villa: Picturing Race

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Laura Isabel Serna University of Southern California

February 17, 2015
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La Venganza De Pancho Villa: Picturing Race Pancho Villa Imagining the Border compilation Curator's Note La Venganza de Pancho Villa (ca. 1930), which was named to the National Film Registry in 2009 is an eerie text. It is haunted by images from two ...

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In Media Res

Re: Border Futures

Sleep Dealer, Solidarity, Hope

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Laura Isabel Serna University of Southern California

Tuesday, February 17, 2015 — 3:09 am
I frequently teach sleep dealer and one of the most notable elements of the film is the character Rudy Ramirez's gradual awakening to his position within the neoliberal system that has privatized water, virtualized Mexican labor, and militarized the ...
In Media Res

Re: Bridges, Tunnels, Fences, and Moats: Border Visual Metaphors in The Bridge (TV series, FX, 2013)

Medai Flows

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Laura Isabel Serna University of Southern California

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 — 7:08 pm
Media also serves (or can serve) a connective function. In "La Venganza" see yesterday's post we saw how modes of representation circulated and were taken up in divergent contexts (e.g. Mexican audiences watching American films that feature ...