Journal of Transnational American Studies

This essay compares and contrasts Babel, Pan’s Labyrinth, and Children of Men’s treatments of global Mexico. It focuses on each film’s representations of white femininity and children (variously absent, potentially revolutionary, and messianic). In addition, it offers preliminary notes on a theory of “coproduction” as both an aesthetic response to, and an effect of, neoliberal and alter-globalizations.