Manuel -- I don't really know what kinds of limits you're
putting on your piece, but when I think of noir/hardboiled
culture and border tensions, the great film TOUCH OF EVIL
immediately comes to mind. The portrayal of Chicanos is
curious, to say the least -- and casting Heston as a Mexicano
narc goes beyond curious to the bizarre. I haven't read the
Whit Masterson novel, BADGE OF EVIL, upon which Welles and
Paul Monash based the screenplay. Surely someone on the list
has read it -- how about it, Bill Crider? Does it have the
same border elements?
Kip
Mrriter@aol.com on 01/17/2000 09:27:23 PM
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I'm working on an article about Mexicans and
Mexican-Americans in crime fiction and have turned up the
names of some authors that I am sure many of you have
read.
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