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Narco cinema is a low-budget direct-to-video cinema produced by Mexican and Mexican-American studios, predominantly for US Latina1 markets. It’s a remarkably lucrative industry and in over 40 years of production has furnished a catalogue of thousands of films about narco culture in Mexico and the borderlands.
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Álex Madrigal, “Millones de latinos compran narcopeliculas.” El Universal (2010);
Juan Pablo Proal, “Cine de narcos en México, pura realidad.” Puebla On-line (2009);
Valeria Perasso, “Reality Took Over from the Imagination of the Film Maker.” BBC Radio World Service (2008).
Gabriela Polit Dueñas, Narrating Narcos (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013). 8, 84.
Fabiola Martinez, “Pacto de medias para limitar información sobre violencia.” La Jornada (2011).
Bernal qtd. in Francisco Gómez, “Villano del cine busca alcadía del Parácuaro.” El Universal (2007).
Ioan Grillo, El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency (New York: Bloomsbury, 2011), 167.
Elyssa Pachico, “Juarez Murder Rate Reaches 5-Year Low.” In Sight Crime (2013).
Jorge Alan Sánchez Godoy, “La narcocultura en Sinaloa.” La Jornada del Campo (2007).
Elijah Wald, Narcocorrido (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), 56.
Secretaría de Seguridad Pública, “Jóvenes y Narcocultura.” (Mexico City: Gobierno Federal, 2010), 4–5.
Though incomplete, the best list available is an appendix to David E. Wilt’s The Mexican Filmography, 1916 through 2001 (Jefferson: McFarland, 2003).
Charles Bowden, Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004), 64.
Bowden, 4. In disclosure, I have used this Bowden quote and made a similar call for “overcoming our collective amnesia” about drug culture, though not with regard to narco cinema. See Ryan Rashotte, Biopolitical Itineraries: Mexico in Contemporary Tourist Literature, Diss., University of Guelnh, 2011.
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Rashotte, R. (2015). What Is Narco Cinema?. In: Narco Cinema. Latino Pop Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137489241_1
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