Jason Ruiz is an associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural Politics of Empire.

• Introduction Chapter 1. “Say Goodnight to the Bad Guy”: South Florida, Cocaine, and the Many Faces of Scarface Chapter 2. Miami Vices: Whiteness and Otherness in Representing the Criminalized City Chapter 3. “The Most Alive Dead Man in the World”: Plotting the Death of Pablo Escobar Chapter 4. Dancing toward Revenge: Queer Representation and What It Means to Be Seen in Narcomedia Chapter 5. Dark Matters: Breaking Bad and the Suburban Crime Drama Chapter 6. Bad Hombres: Narcomedia at the US-Mexico Border Chapter 7. From Public Enemy to Global Media Commodity: Pablo Escobar Transformed Epilogue. “It’s Time for a White Man to Leave the Building”: Centering Latinidad in Narcomedia Acknowledgments Notes Selected Filmography Bibliography Index

A concentrated, rigorous look at Latinx representations in late-20th- and early-21st-century 'narcomedia,' or 'communication forms that emerge from drug trafficking'...Ruiz’s observations are incisive throughout. He is at his best, though, when directly addressing the 'how' and 'why' behind the production of problematic Latinx representations...Narcomedia itself makes important inroads into paving the path ahead for Latinx representations in US-made film and TV. Ruiz’s book is a fine example of the scholarly vigilance and clarity of thought needed to hold the abidingly white-centric entertainment industry’s feet to the fire in their ongoing representations of Latinx people on-screen. (Los Angeles Review of Books) Ruiz's work is a valuable contribution to the protracted "blame game" between US and Mexican authorities. . . . [Narcomedia] is a snapshot of a complex topic, offering a good entry point for the public into the complicated subject of the War on Drugs. (CHOICE) A fun and informative romp...[with a] serious message. (Drug War Chronicle)

Jason Ruiz is an associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural Politics of Empire.

• Introduction Chapter 1. “Say Goodnight to the Bad Guy”: South Florida, Cocaine, and the Many Faces of Scarface Chapter 2. Miami Vices: Whiteness and Otherness in Representing the Criminalized City Chapter 3. “The Most Alive Dead Man in the World”: Plotting the Death of Pablo Escobar Chapter 4. Dancing toward Revenge: Queer Representation and What It Means to Be Seen in Narcomedia Chapter 5. Dark Matters: Breaking Bad and the Suburban Crime Drama Chapter 6. Bad Hombres: Narcomedia at the US-Mexico Border Chapter 7. From Public Enemy to Global Media Commodity: Pablo Escobar Transformed Epilogue. “It’s Time for a White Man to Leave the Building”: Centering Latinidad in Narcomedia Acknowledgments Notes Selected Filmography Bibliography Index

A concentrated, rigorous look at Latinx representations in late-20th- and early-21st-century 'narcomedia,' or 'communication forms that emerge from drug trafficking'...Ruiz’s observations are incisive throughout. He is at his best, though, when directly addressing the 'how' and 'why' behind the production of problematic Latinx representations...Narcomedia itself makes important inroads into paving the path ahead for Latinx representations in US-made film and TV. Ruiz’s book is a fine example of the scholarly vigilance and clarity of thought needed to hold the abidingly white-centric entertainment industry’s feet to the fire in their ongoing representations of Latinx people on-screen. (Los Angeles Review of Books) Ruiz's work is a valuable contribution to the protracted "blame game" between US and Mexican authorities. . . . [Narcomedia] is a snapshot of a complex topic, offering a good entry point for the public into the complicated subject of the War on Drugs. (CHOICE) A fun and informative romp...[with a] serious message. (Drug War Chronicle)

Jason Ruiz is an associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural Politics of Empire.

• Introduction Chapter 1. “Say Goodnight to the Bad Guy”: South Florida, Cocaine, and the Many Faces of Scarface Chapter 2. Miami Vices: Whiteness and Otherness in Representing the Criminalized City Chapter 3. “The Most Alive Dead Man in the World”: Plotting the Death of Pablo Escobar Chapter 4. Dancing toward Revenge: Queer Representation and What It Means to Be Seen in Narcomedia Chapter 5. Dark Matters: Breaking Bad and the Suburban Crime Drama Chapter 6. Bad Hombres: Narcomedia at the US-Mexico Border Chapter 7. From Public Enemy to Global Media Commodity: Pablo Escobar Transformed Epilogue. “It’s Time for a White Man to Leave the Building”: Centering Latinidad in Narcomedia Acknowledgments Notes Selected Filmography Bibliography Index

A concentrated, rigorous look at Latinx representations in late-20th- and early-21st-century 'narcomedia,' or 'communication forms that emerge from drug trafficking'...Ruiz’s observations are incisive throughout. He is at his best, though, when directly addressing the 'how' and 'why' behind the production of problematic Latinx representations...Narcomedia itself makes important inroads into paving the path ahead for Latinx representations in US-made film and TV. Ruiz’s book is a fine example of the scholarly vigilance and clarity of thought needed to hold the abidingly white-centric entertainment industry’s feet to the fire in their ongoing representations of Latinx people on-screen. (Los Angeles Review of Books) Ruiz's work is a valuable contribution to the protracted "blame game" between US and Mexican authorities. . . . [Narcomedia] is a snapshot of a complex topic, offering a good entry point for the public into the complicated subject of the War on Drugs. (CHOICE) A fun and informative romp...[with a] serious message. (Drug War Chronicle)