Border Tunnels A Media Theory of the U.S.-Mexico Underground

"Don't miss this provocative and impressive study of the mediated imaginings and construction of the U.S.-Mexico border. Juan Llamas-Rodriguez's Border Tunnels provides an original and illuminating investigation of the complex and intertwined subjects of U.S.-Mexico relations, media narratives and video games that focus on border security, and the political rhetoric of marginalization." -Mary BeltrÁn, author of Latino TV: A History

"Juan Llamas-Rodriguez pushes the limits of media theory to help us think about borders, tunnels, and the complex social and material interrelations that define the U.S.-Mexico border. Subtle, creative, and theoretically sophisticated, Border Tunnels compels us to look at these material structures as media, as social organizers crafted by popular culture, policy, myth, engineering, and surveillance technologies." -Hector Amaya, author of Trafficking: Narcoculture in Mexico and the United States