Spectral aesthetics : visualizing the crisis of migrant disappearance /

"Immigration issues in the U.S. have been at the center of U.S. politics and media, especially from 2005 with the advent of the immigrant rights marches that took place then to the policy changes that happened under the newly appointed Trump administration with the executive orders on border sh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Medel, China (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2026.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Motion pictures > Social aspects > United States. Motion pictures > Political aspects > United States. Photography > Social aspects > United States. Photography > Political aspects > United States. Emigration and immigration in art. Borderlands > In art. Violence in art. Disappeared persons in art. Race in art. Mexican-American Border Region > In art. Cinéma > Aspect social > États-Unis. Émigration et immigration dans l'art. Régions frontalières > Dans l'art. Violence dans l'art. Race dans l'art. Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Dans l'art.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. The hauntings of disavowed life in the militarized borderlands
Documenting the undocumented : captive visuality and textures of mourning in Marco Williams's "The Undocumented"
Palpable absence and critical invisibility : photographing traces of migrant life and death
Infrastructures of borderization and migration's fugitive poetics of freedom in Children of Men
The transborder immigrant tool and the transitive poetics of migration
Conclusion.