Research Catalog

Title

Border visions : identity and diaspora in film / edited by Jakub Kazecki, Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Cynthia J. Miller.

Publication

Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Kazecki, Jakub.
• Miller, Cynthia J., 1958-
• Ritzenhoff, Karen A.

Description

xxiv, 275 pages; 24 cm

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 Armendariz, Cary Fukunaga, Christoph Hochhausler, Holger Jancke, Emir Kusturica, Laila Pakalnina, Alex Rivera, Larissa Shepitko, Andrea Staka, Elia Suleiman, and Istvan Szabo.

Subject

• Boundaries in motion pictures
• Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I : Utopias and dystopias : Border visions and alternative (his/her) stories -- Part II : From the center to the margins : Ideological dominance and liminal spaces -- Part III : Vanished borders : Memory, nostalgia, and homesickness -- Part IV : Growing up on the road : Crossing borders and identity formation -- Part V : Narrative transgressions : Crossing genres and border crossings.

ISBN

• 9780810890503 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 081089050X (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780810890510 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013007500

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library