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Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema

Author : James S. Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429559273

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Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema by James S. Williams Pdf

This exciting and original volume offers the first comprehensive critical study of the recent profusion of European films and television addressing sexual migration and seeking to capture the lives and experiences of LGBTIQ+ migrants and refugees. Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema argues that embodied cinematic representations of the queer migrant, even if at times highly ambivalent and contentious, constitute an urgent new repertoire of queer subjectivities and socialities that serve to undermine the patrolled borders of gender and sexuality, nationhood and citizenship, and refigure or queer fixed notions and universals of identity like ‘Europe’ and national belonging based on the model of the family. At stake ethically and politically is the elaboration of a ‘transborder’ consciousness and aesthetics that counters the homonationalist, xenophobic and homo/trans-phobic representation of the ‘migrant to Europe’ figure rooted in the toxic binaries of othering (the good vs bad migrant, host vs guest, indigenous vs foreigner). Bringing together 16 contributors working in different national film traditions and embracing multiple theoretical perspectives, this powerful and timely collection will be of major interest to both specialists and students in Film and Media Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, Migration/Mobility Studies, Cultural Studies, and Aesthetics.

The Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema

Author : Temenuga Trifonova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501362491

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The Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema by Temenuga Trifonova Pdf

The Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema explores contemporary debates around the concepts of 'Europe' and 'European identity' through an examination of recent European films dealing with various aspects of globalization (the refugee crisis, labour migration, the resurgence of nationalism and ethnic violence, neoliberalism, post-colonialism) with a particular attention to the figure of the migrant and the ways in which this figure challenges us to rethink Europe and its core Enlightenment values (citizenship, justice, ethics, liberty, tolerance, and hospitality) in a post-national context of ephemerality, volatility, and contingency that finds people desperately looking for firmer markers of identity. The book argues that a compelling case can be made for re-orienting the study of contemporary European cinema around the figure of the migrant viewed both as a symbolic figure (representing post-national citizenship, urbanization, the 'gap' between ethics and justice) and as a figure occupying an increasingly central place in European cinema in general rather than only in what is usually called 'migrant and diasporic cinema'. By drawing attention to the structural and affective affinities between the experience of migrants and non-migrants, Europeans and non-Europeans, Trifonova shows that it is becoming increasingly difficult to separate stories about migration from stories about life under neoliberalism in general

Screening Strangers

Author : Yosefa Loshitzky
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253221827

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Screening Strangers by Yosefa Loshitzky Pdf

Yosefa Loshitzky challenges the utopian notion of a post-national "New Europe" by focusing on the waves of migrants and refugees that some view as a potential threat to European identity, a concern heightened by the rhetoric of the war on terror, the London Underground bombings, and the riots in Paris's banlieues. Opening a cinematic window onto this struggle, Loshitzky determines patterns in the representation and negotiation of European identity in several European films from the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged, Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things, Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine, and Michael Winterbottom's In This World, Code 46, and The Road to Guantanamo.

The Other in Contemporary Migrant Cinema

Author : Guido Rings
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317360049

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The Other in Contemporary Migrant Cinema by Guido Rings Pdf

As a rapidly aging continent, Europe increasingly depends on the successful integration of migrants. Unfortunately, contemporary political and media discourses observe and frequently also support the development of nationalist, eurosceptic and xenophobic reactions to immigration and growing multiethnicity. Confronting this trend, European cinema has developed and disseminated new transcultural and postcolonial alternatives that might help to improve integration and community cohesion in Europe, and this book investigates these alternatives in order to identify examples of good practices that can enhance European stability. While the cinematic spectrum is as wide and open as most notions of Europeanness, the films examined share a fundamental interest in the Other. In this qualitative film analysis approach, particular consideration is given to British, French, German, and Spanish productions, and a comparison of multiethnic conviviality in Chicano cinema.

European Cinema in Motion

Author : D. Berghahn,C. Sternberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230295070

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European Cinema in Motion by D. Berghahn,C. Sternberg Pdf

This collection brings together international experts on the cinema of migration and diaspora in postcolonial and postnational Europe. It offers a comprehensive theoretical and analytical discussion of a highly productive creative sector and documents the spectrum of this area of exploration in European, transnational and World Cinema studies.

In Permanent Crisis

Author : Ipek A. Celik
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472052721

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In Permanent Crisis by Ipek A. Celik Pdf

Dissects the ways filmmakers frame ethnic and racial Otherness in Europe as adornments of catastrophe

French-language Road Cinema

Author : Gott Michael Gott
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474413978

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French-language Road Cinema by Gott Michael Gott Pdf

Over the past two decades road cinema has become an increasingly popular form of expression for European directors. Focusing on a corpus of films from France, Belgium and Switzerland, including works by Ismael Ferroukhi, Bouli Lanners, Aki Kaurismaki and Jacqueline Audry amongst many others, French-language Road Cinema contends that nowhere is the impulse to remap the spaces and identities of 'New Europe' more evident than in French-language cinema. Drawing on mobility studies, cultural geography and film theory, this innovative work sketches out the flexible yet distinctive parameters of contemporary French-language road cinema, and argues for an understanding of the 'road movie' not as a genre but as a thematic and formal template that crosses cinematic categories to bring together a wide array of films that narrate the movements of migrants, tourists and business executives.

European Cinema after the Wall

Author : Leen Engelen Leen Engelen,Kris Van Heuckelom
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442229600

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European Cinema after the Wall by Leen Engelen Leen Engelen,Kris Van Heuckelom Pdf

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, transnational European cinema has risen, not only in terms of production but also in terms of a growing focus on multiethnic themes within the European context. This shift from national to trans-European filmmaking has been profoundly influenced by such historical developments as the collapse of the Iron Curtain and the subsequent ongoing enlargement of the European Union. In European Cinema after the Wall: Screening East–West Mobility, Leen Engelen and Kris Van Heuckelom have brought together essays that critically examine representations of post-1989 migration from the former Eastern Bloc to Western Europe, uncovering an array of common tropes and narrative devices that characterize the influences and portrayals of immigration. Featuring essays by contributors from backgrounds as divergent as film studies, Slavic and Russian studies, comparative literature, sociology, contemporary history, and communication and media studies, this volume will appeal to scholars of film, European history, and those interested in the impact of migration, diaspora, and the global flow of cinematic culture.

Far-Flung Families in Film

Author : Daniela Berghahn
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748677870

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Far-Flung Families in Film by Daniela Berghahn Pdf

This book fills this gap and provides an essential resource for academics and researchers with an interest in cinematic representations of the family and transnational cinema.

Women and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema

Author : Giovanna Faleschini Lerner
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781802079029

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Women and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema by Giovanna Faleschini Lerner Pdf

Women and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema: Screening Hospitality puts gender at the centre of cinematic representations of contemporary transnational Italian identities. It offers an intersectional feminist analysis of the ways in which transnational migration has been represented, understood, and constructed in the contemporary cinema of Italy. Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s notion of hospitality and in dialogue with postcolonial and decolonial theory, queer studies, and feminist critiques, the six chapters of the book focus on a series of exemplary fiction films from the last twenty years, which both reflect and shape the nation’s responses to the growing presence of transnational migrants in Italian society. The book shows how questions of gender, sexual difference, and reproductivity have been central to Italian filmmakers’ approaches to stories of mobility and displacement. Gender is also enmeshed in the rhetoric and poetic of hospitality that filmmakers propose as a critical framework to condemn Italian border policies and politics. Women and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema: Screening Hospitality traces an arc that moves from the embrace of a humanitarian rhetoric of infinite hospitality toward migrants, apparent in films produced in the early 2000s, to a more fluid understanding of Italian identities from a transnational perspective.

Conflict and Survival in Contemporary Western European Film

Author : John Alexander Williams,Alexandra Hagen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538158999

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Conflict and Survival in Contemporary Western European Film by John Alexander Williams,Alexandra Hagen Pdf

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, efforts to improve human rights, social equality, and democracy in western Europe have faced growing challenges that range from economic and medical crises to the resurgence of the tribalist far right. Studying western European cinema reveals how filmmakers have been using their art to reflect on the region’s contemporary problems and potentials. In Conflict and Survival in Contemporary Western European Film, John Alexander Williams and Alexandra Hagen have collected a diverse array of essays that analyzehow filmmakers have portrayed forms of strifeand endurancein the new century. Divided into three thematic sections—historical conflicts and national identities; migrants, natives, and battles over space; and ethical struggles in everyday life—this book offers case studies of historical context, narrative, and form in a range of significant recent films. Showcasing such movies as Days of Glory, A War, Code Unknown, The Edge of Heaven, Toni Erdmann, The Great Beauty, and Weekend, this fascinating collection presents contemporary filmmakers as critical citizen-artists who are directly involved in interrogating the past, present, and future of Europe.

Zoom In, Zoom Out

Author : Marjorie Salvodon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123383130

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Zoom In, Zoom Out by Marjorie Salvodon Pdf

In the context of the transformations that Europe is undergoing, this work attempts to serve as a testimony to the multiple ways in which European filmmakers are questioning the many borders of the continent. The films discussed here address the question of European identity, crossing geographic, cultural, linguistic and aesthetic borders.

Post-Unification Turkish German Cinema

Author : Gozde Naiboglu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319644318

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Post-Unification Turkish German Cinema by Gozde Naiboglu Pdf

This book offers a post-representational approach to a range of fiction and non-fiction films that deal with labour migration from Turkey to Germany. Engaging with materialist philosophies of process, it offers analyses of films by Thomas Arslan, Christian Petzold, Aysun Bademsoy, Seyhan Derin, Harun Farocki, Yüksel Yavuz and Feo Aladag. Shifting the focus from the longstanding concerns of integration, identity and cultural conflict, Gozde Naiboglu shows that these films offer new expressions of lived experience under late capitalism through themes of work, social reproduction, unemployment and insecure work, exhaustion and precarity, thereby calling for a rethinking of the established ideas of class, community and identity.

Polish Migrants in European Film 1918–2017

Author : Kris Van Heuckelom
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030042189

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Polish Migrants in European Film 1918–2017 by Kris Van Heuckelom Pdf

This study explores the representation of international migration on screen and how it has gained prominence and salience in European filmmaking over the past 100 years. Using Polish migration as a key example due to its long-standing cultural resonance across the continent, this book moves beyond a director-oriented approach and beyond the dominant focus on postcolonial migrant cinemas. It succeeds in being both transnational and longitudinal by including a diverse corpus of more than 150 films from some twenty different countries, of which Roman Polański’s The Tenant, Jean-Luc Godard’s Passion and Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Trois couleurs: Blanc are the best-known examples. Engaging with contemporary debates on modernisation and Europeanisation, the author proposes the notion of “close Otherness” to delineate the liminal position of fictional characters with a Polish background. Polish Migrants in European Film 1918-2017 takes the reader through a wide range of genres, from interwar musicals to Cold War defection films; from communist-era exile right up to the contemporary moment. It is suitable for scholars interested in European or Slavic studies, as well as anyone who is interested in topics such as identity construction, ethnic representation, East-West cultural exchanges and transnationalism.

Contemporary European Cinema

Author : Betty Kaklamanidou,Ana Corbalán
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 1138564400

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Contemporary European Cinema by Betty Kaklamanidou,Ana Corbalán Pdf

Contested terms, the European Union contribution and a financial crisis / Betty Kaklamanidou and Ana Corbalán -- National, transnational and intermedial perspectives in post-2008 European cinema / Thomas Elsaesser -- France after the crisis : work, home and flexible solidarity in Les neiges du Kilimandjaro (2011) and Ma part du gateau (2011) / Michael Gott -- Spanish science fiction film in times of emergency : crisis and entrapment in Nacho Vigalondo's Extraterrestrial and David and Álex Pastor's The last days / Antonio Cordoba -- Narratives of migration and the sense of crisis in post-2008 European cinema / György Kalmár -- Undocumented migration in European borderlands : re-locating the crisis in contemporary documentaries / Jan Kühnemund -- Post-2008 European comedies of crisis : La vida inesperada and Casse-tête chinois / Debra J. Ochoa -- Depression as aesthetic answer to the socioeconomic crisis in two days, one night / Tobias Dietrich -- French and Italian co-production redux : the Fondo initiative / claudia Romanelli -- The contemporary Serbian film industry : issues of production and distribution (2008-2017) / Sandra Nikolic and Biljana Mitrovic -- La jeunesse désaffectée in contemporary Serbian cinema / Nevena Daković and Maša Seničić -- The Greek new wave : representing work and unemployment in crisis / Ursula-Helen Kassaveti and Afroditi Nikolaidou -- Contemporary Greek and Polish "best foreign language films" in an age of austerity / Anne Ciecko