Border Visions: Identity and Diaspora in Film - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 081089050X ISBN 13 : 9780810890503

Editeur : Scarecrow Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jakub Kazecki is assistant professor at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He is the author of Laughter in the Trenches: Humour and Front Experience in German First World War Narratives (2012).

Karen A. Ritzenhoff is Professor of Communication and affiliated faculty with the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS), Cinema Studies, and Honors programs at Central Connecticut State University, USA.

Ritzenhoff is co-editor of Border Visions (Scarecrow Press, 2013), Selling Sex on Screen (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), The Apocalypse in Film (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), The Handmaid's Tale (Lexington Books, 2019), and Barbenheimer Syndrome (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026). She is also the co-author of Afrofuturism in Black Panther (Lexington Books, 2021).

Her other books include Contemporary Asian Popular Culture (Volumes 1 & 2, 2025), Gender, Power, and Identity in the Films of Stanley Kubrick (2023), Mediated Terrorism in the 21st Century (2021), New Perspectives on the War Film (2019), Humor, Entertainment and Popular Culture During WWI (2015), Heroism and Gender in War Films (2014), and Sex and Sexuality in a Feminist World (2009).

Cynthia J. Miller is senior faculty at the Emerson College Institute for the Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Scarecrow Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081089050X
• ISBN 13: 9780810890503
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Éditeur: Kazecki Jakub, Ritzenhoff Karen A., Miller Cynthia J.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne