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OverviewChoice Outstanding Academic Title 2018 The Wizard of Oz brought many now-iconic tropes into popular culture: the yellow brick road, ruby slippers and Oz. But this book begins with Dorothy and her legacy as an archetypal touchstone in cinema for the child journeying far from home. In There's No Place Like Home, distinguished film scholar Stephanie Hemelryk Donald offers a fresh interpretation of the migrant child as a recurring figure in world cinema. Displaced or placeless children, and the idea of childhood itself, are vehicles to examine migration and cosmopolitanism in films such as Le Ballon Rouge, Little Moth and Le Havre. Surveying fictional and documentary film from the post-war years until today, the author shows how the child is a guide to themes of place, self and being in world cinema. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dr. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (The University of Lincoln, UK)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: I.B. Tauris Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9781784534233ISBN 10: 1784534234 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 27 March 2018 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsChapter One: The Dorothy Complex Chapter Two: The Red Balloon and Squirt’s Journey: story-telling with child migrants Chapter Three: Once My Mother, Welcome and Le Havre: breath and the child cosmopolitan Chapter Four: Little Moth and The Road: precarity, immobility and inertia Chapter Five: Landscape in the Mist Chapter Six: The Leaving of Liverpool: Empire and religion, poetry and the archive Chapter Seven: Diamonds of the Night Afterword: Where have all the children gone? EndnotesReviews`There's No Place Like Home stands out for its immediacy, poignancy, and elegance. By capturing the fragility and elasticity of childhoods, this book makes a compelling addition to world cinema, and the real world of precarious migration.' - Ying Zhu, The City University of New York; author of Two-Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television, `There's No Place Like Home is a brilliant and timely meditation on migration and visual culture. Donald's rich readings on the powerful concept of child life - transient, formative, elusive - shows cinema's attempts to close the gap between the world we live in and the world we want.' - Vicky Lebeau, University of Sussex, `Drawn from years of research, this book is an extraordinarily wide-ranging volume, mixing film analysis with forms of auto-ethnography. Donald highlights how the image of the migrant child in film provides a power commentary on the material and psychological consequences of social upheavals.' - Paul Cooke, University of Leeds Author InformationStephanie Hemelryk Donald is Professor of Film at Monash University Malaysia and Head of the School of Arts and Social Sciences. Since 2018 she has worked in the Justice, Arts and Migration Network (Lincoln-Sydney-Hong Kong) on artivist interventions that highlight state injustices against people, including children, on migrant journeys. This work was made possible by Natasha Davis (The Big Walk: It Takes a Decade, 2020), Hoda Afshar (Remain / There’s No Place Like Home, 2019), the SYMAAG, Maison de Femmes, and Right to Remain organisers in Dunquerque, Manchester, and Sheffield, and the curators at Mansions of the Future (Lincoln 2018-2020). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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