Transfrontera Crimes: Representations of the Juárez Femicides in Recent Fictional and Non-Fictional Accounts by Marietta Messmer

“…In her article, Marrietta Messmer discusses the representation of the Juárez femicides and their traumatizing effects on the Juárez/El Paso community in four recently published accounts: Teresa Rodriguez's journalistic account The Daughters of Juarez (2007), the documentary Señorita Extraviada (2001) directed by Lourdes Portillo, the feature film Bordertown (2006), directed by Gregory Nava, and Alicia Gaspar de Alba's mystery novel Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders (2005). …”
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Film narratives crossing time and space in the Americas: a comparative perspective os La Jaula de Oro (2013) and El Norte (1983); Rio (2011) and The Three Caballeros (1944) by Anelise Reich Corseuil

“…The essay presents the process of narrative continuity and displacement in recent films about immigration and travel within the Americas, as they can be read in relation to earlier films on the same theme, La Jaula de Oro (Diego Queimada-Díez, 2013) vis à vis El Norte (Gregory Nava, 1983), and  Rio (Carlos Saldanha, 2011) vis à vis The Three Caballeros (Walt Disney, 1944). …”
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