New Media and Visual Technologies as weapons of vigilante border policing
A rogue U.S. Border Patrol agent goes undercover as an undocumented migrant.
- from the Gate Keeper (2001)
- Creator: John Carlos Frey
- Distributor: Screen Media Films
- Posted by Curtis Marez
- Keywords
- Genres
- Options
Commentaries on this Media!
New Media Technologies as Weapons of Vigilante Border Policing
by Curtis MarezIn this scene from independent film The Gatekeeper (2001), a rogue U.S. Border Patrol agent joins a Minute Men-like group of nativist vigilantes and goes undercover as an undocumented migrant and equipped with a GPS device and a hidden digital video camera.
Other media by this contributor
Cameras as means of policing farm workers
A migrant worker blows up a meth lab
Police Violence against farm workers
Luke destroys the Deathstar
Chavez Memorial
Dystopian SF and Public Institutions: The Running Man
Imagining Mexican audiences in Break of Dawn
Farm Machinery as Murder Weapon in Border Incident
Jar Jar Binks Introduced
A Dream about Public Education: Junior
Mexican Audiences Morph into Activists: Break of Dawn
Weaponizing Blackface
Feminist Detection at UCSD: Veronica Mars
Race and Gender in a Los Angeles College Film
Cesar Dances