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Bregent-Heald develops a long overdue and much needed comparative perspective on the twentieth-century history of films about the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada. As it challenges notions of national and regional exceptionalism, Borderland Films is essential reading for anyone interested in border studies, North American history, scholarship on the Canada-U.S. border, hemispheric American studies, and film studies. -Claudia Sadowski-Smith, author of Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States -- Claudia Sadowski-Smith This beautifully written, interdisciplinary analysis combines cutting-edge borderlands scholarship with a close analysis of a unique genre in the late Progressive Era American film industry. It examines the many ways that films about the northern and southern edges of the United States portrayed and explained racial tensions. It is an important and welcome addition to North American borderlands historiography. -Sheila McManus, author of The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender, and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands -- Sheila McManus In Borderland Films, Dominique Bregent-Heald analyzes a stunning array of movies-from the familiar to the forgotten-produced during the industry's early years and set along the boundaries between the United States and its northern and southern neighbors, with particular attention to overlapping and diverging portrayals of race, gender, citizenship, and nation. Carefully argued and lucidly written, this is essential reading for those engaged in the telling of a truly continental history of North America. -Andrew Graybill, author of Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910 -- Andrew Graybill

In Borderland Films, Dominique Bregent-Heald analyzes a stunning array of movies from the familiar to the forgotten produced during the industry s early years and set along the boundaries between the United States and its northern and southern neighbors, with particular attention to overlapping and diverging portrayals of race, gender, citizenship, and nation. Carefully argued and lucidly written, this is essential reading for those engaged in the telling of a truly continental history of North America. Andrew Graybill, author of Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875 1910 --Andrew Graybill (03/05/2015)

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Dominique BrÉgent-Heald is an associate professor of history at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her articles have appeared in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, American Review of Canadian Studies, Western Historical Quarterly, Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, and Journal of American Culture.  

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