Policing the World on Screen

Marilyn Yaquinto was an interdisciplinary professor at Truman State University and former journalist who shares in the Los Angeles Times’ Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1992 riots. She is also author of Pump ‘Em Full of Lead: A Look at Gangsters on Film and co-editor of books about race in media.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Frontier Ambitions and Cowboy Narratives.- 3. Dirty Harry and the Urban Frontier.- 4. Black Crimefighters: Portraits in Blue.- 5. Female Crimefighters Defending the Homefront.- 6. Becoming American: Ethnic Others as Crimefighting Heroes.- 7. Globocops, La Frontera, and America's War on Drugs.- 8. The War on Terror, Homegrown Racism, and the White Knight.- 9. Recruiting the Other as Globocops.- 10. Policing the World: The Last (White) American Standing.