Walls Without Cinema

This volume closely examines the near-ubiquitous images of state security walls domes and other such defense enclosures flashing across movie screens since 2006 the year of the ratification of George W. Bush's Secure Fence Act. This study shows that many of the films of this era enable us to imaginatively test the effects of these security mechanisms on citizens immigrants refugees and other sovereign states challenging our commitment to constructing them maintaining them staffing them and subsidizing their enormous overheads.<br/><br/>With case studies ranging from <i>Atomic Blonde</i>and <i>Ready Player One</i> to <i>Black Panther</i> and <i>Elysium;</i> <i>Walls without Cinema</i>serves as a timely counterpoint to the xenophobic rhetoric and abusive carceral security conditions that characterize the Trump administration's management of the Mexico-U.S. border situation.