Coyotes en el cine fronterizo analyzes the role of human smugglers in the context of the United States-Mexico border. Author Juan Villa identifies the different types and functions of human smugglers or coyotes by studying their characterizations in Mexican and American border-related film productions. This gives Villa s literary work a very unique and appealing perspective. The author reveals the ambivalent nature of coyotes as they help people without documents cross the border into the U.S., and by distinguishing the malevolent nature of the human smuggler as well as the nature of the...