...China Medel This article examines the role of image culture in producing collective memory and opportunities for transnational solidarity in Alex Rivera’s science fiction film about the US-Mexico borderlands, Sleep Dealer (US/Mexico, 2008). The article shows that the film offers two contrasting...

... (US, Tina Mabry’s Mississippi Damned (US, Cherien Dabis’s Amreeka (US/Canada, Zeina Durra’s The Imperialists Are Still Alive (US, Suzi Yoonessi’s Dear Lemon Lima (US, Dennis Dortch’s A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy (US, Jennifer Phang’s Half Life (US, Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer (US...

.... In contrast with such innocuous personalities were the personae of Phil Donahue, Sally Jessy Raphael, Oprah Winfrey, and Gerald0 Rivera, who reinvented the talk show in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The “big four” of talk shows cultivated reputations as socially concerned individuals and tough...