Border Witness: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through Film

What a century of border films teaches about the real and imagined worlds of the US—Mexico borderlands—and how this understanding helps build better relations across boundaries.

Border Witness is an account of cultural collision and fusion between Mexico and the United States, as seen on the ground and in films from the past hundred years. Blending film studies with political and cultural geography, Michael Dear investigates the making of cross—border identity and community in the territori...