“Check Your Network Connection”: Cyberpunk Visions of Disembodied Labor in Sleep Dealer by Michael Pitts

“…Such research, however, often overlooks the power of cultural products such as film to comment upon these topics. As the following analysis of the Mexican film Sleep Dealer (2008) illustrates, film and, more specifically, cyberpunk cinema act as important vehicles through which complex commentaries on the socioeconomic conditions of the Mexico-U.S. border may be developed and presented.…”
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Archétypes du corps cinématographique du narcotrafiquant mexicain by Magali Kabous

“…Therefore, we try to draw various archetypes of the drug dealer’s body in films. How do filmmakers depict their character, their physical appearance and metamorphosis and their integration into a group? …”
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