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New Mexico State University’s Creative Media Institute (CMI) will host a screening of the 2005 movie “The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,” with an introduction and a question-and-answer session with visiting scholar Fareed Ben-Youssef, Ph.D., said CMI visiting assistant professor Julia Smith, Ph.D.
The screening, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 29, at the CMI Theatre, Milton Hall, Room 171, on the NMSU campus.
Ben-Youssef “will introduce the film with some comments and a short discussion of his own ambivalent relationship with the cowboy ideal growing up as a disabled French-Arab in eastern Montana,” Smith said. “This talk would touch on his town's wider fraught history with migrant communities and could include archival photographs.”
The film, which was directed by and stars Tommy Lee Jones and was shot in Texas, “exemplifies the features of the post-9/11 Border Western,” Ben-Youssef said. “It's a nightmarish Western that laces the post-9/11, ever-more militarized U.S.-Mexico border with death as it shows us the difficulty of empathizing with an Other, and the hard road to compassion.”
Visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3P7wiVIhWk.
Ben-Youssef is an assistant professor of film and media studies at Texas Tech University and is the author of “No Jurisdiction: Legal Political, and Aesthetic Disorder in Post 9/11 Genre Cinemas,” which will be published in July.
The book is described as “A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture” according to the publisher’s website.
Contact Smith at julias@nmsu.edu.
