June 6, 2023 | Whose City?
Whose City host Larry Herzog talks with geographer and border scholar Michael Dear about his pathbreaking new book Border Witness, which uses film to better understand the changing Tijuana-San Diego border region.
June 2023 | Borders in Globalization
In this interview, Michael Dear speaks about Border Witness and the construction of mental, cultural and artistic representations of borders and their complex links with reality.
April 17, 2023 | KJZZ The Show
Michael Dear talks about some of the border films he sees as most important and why he chose to focus on films after a career studying and writing about the border.
The term ‘genre’ is generally understood to refer to types of film that share common characteristics relating to theme and style of filmmaking.
Here is a list of my 15 favorite border films in chronological order, including many “classics” of the genre. Most films are easily accessible, but some might require a deeper search.