“Including wonderful illustrations, this exhaustive and accessible book will be valuable for those interested not only in Spanish film but in film and Mexican culture generally. Highly recommended.”—I. Portaro, Choice
“Gleefully illustrated with posters, stills, and advertisements for Mexican Western films and comics, Heroes of the Borderlands is a beautifully produced book filled with insight on a variety of topics from Borderlands studies to Mexican comedy.”—Jason Strykowski, New Mexico Historical Review
“Heroes of the Borderlands builds an effective framework for identity and opposition in the Mexican Western and makes a strong case for its value to academic study. . . . [Conway’s] exploration of ‘key landmarks in the cultural history of the Mexican Western through film, comics, and song’ will have a lasting impact on future research.”—Jeff Basile, Journal of Popular Culture
“This book is a fascinating treatment of Mexican cultural media that are often relegated, implicitly or explicitly, to the status of ‘lowbrow’ texts unworthy of serious and informed analytical treatment.”—Bruce Campbell, author of ¡Viva la historieta! Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the Politics of Globalization
“Conway metes out some much-needed justice on behalf of the overlooked and undervalued tales about gunslingers, cowboys, bandidos, and bad hombres that have fueled the public imagination in Mexico for the better part of a century.”—Brian L. Price, author of Cult of Defeat in Mexico’s Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss
