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Border Visions
Identity and Diaspora in Film
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2013
Summary
Over the last several decades, the boundaries of languages and national and ethnic identities have been shifting, altering the notion of borders around the world. Borderland areas, such as East and West Europe, the US/Mexican frontera, and the Middle East, serve as places of cultural transfer and exchange, as well as arenas of violent conflict and segregation. As communities around the world merge across national borders, new multi-ethnic and multicultural countries have become ever more common.
Border Visions: Identity and Diaspora in Film offers an overview of global cinema that addresses borders as spaces of hybridity and change. In this collection of essays, contributors examine how cinema portrays conceptions of borderlands informed by knowledge, politics, art, memory, and lived experience, and how these constructions contribute to a changing global community. These essays analyze a variety of international feature films and documentaries that focus on the lives, cultures, and politics of borderlands. The essays discuss the ways in which conflicts and their resolutions occur in borderlands and how they are portrayed on film. The volume pays special attention to contemporary Europe, where the topic of shifting border identities is one of the main driving forces in the processes of European unification.
Among the filmmakers whose work is discussed in this volume are Fatih Akin, Montxo Armendàriz, Cary Fukunaga, Christoph Hochhäusler, Holger Jancke, Emir Kusturica, Laila Pakalnina, Alex Rivera, Larissa Shepitko, Andrea Staka, Elia Suleiman, and István Szabó. A significant contribution to the dialogue on global cinema, Border Visions will be of interest to students and scholars of film, but also to scholars in border studies, gender studies, sociology, and political science.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-9050-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-9051-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
276
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Foreword: On Love-On Borders No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1. Imaginal Border Crossings and Silence as Negative Mimesis in Elia Suleiman’s Divine Intervention (2002) No access
Chapter 2. Underground Bridges: Tunnels in the Films of Emir Kusturica—Underground (1995) and Life Is a Miracle (2004) No access
Chapter 3. Aquaterrorists and Cybraceros: The Dystopian Borderlands of Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer (2008) No access
Chapter 4. An Empire of Borders: Central European Boundaries in István Szabó’s Colonel Redl (1985) No access
Chapter 5. Icons, Landscape, and the Boundaries of Good and Evil: Larisa Shepitko’s The Ascent (1977) No access
Chapter 6. Negotiating a New Europe: Laila Pakalnin,a’s The Bus (2004) and Transnational Landscapes No access
Chapter 7. Zurich Roses: Andrea Staka’s Das Fräulein (2006) No access
Chapter 8. A Scar That Vanished: Recollections of the Inner-German Border in German Nonfiction Film No access
Chapter 9. The Use of Music in Turkish-German Diasporic Cinema No access
Chapter 10. Heating Up: Border Crossing and Identity Formation in Fatih Akin’s In July (2000) No access
Chapter 11. Lost Children: Images of Childhood on the German-Polish Border in Christoph Hochhäusler’s This Very Moment (2003) and Robert Glin´ski’s Piggies (2009) No access
Chapter 12. Orphans, Violence, and Identity: Transnational Travel in Cary Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre (2009), Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies (2010), and François Dupeyron’s Monsieur Ibrahim (2003) No access
Chapter 13. What the Images Cannot Show: The Letters in Montxo Armendáriz’s Letters from Alou (1990) No access
Chapter 14. Reflections on China and Border Crossings in Jia Zhang-ke’s Unknown Pleasures (2002) and Still Life (2006) No access
Chapter 15. Border Imaging: Revealing the Gaps between the Reality, the Representation, and the Experience of the Border No access
Index No access Pages 259 - 270
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 271 - 276
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