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In tandem with a postnational imaginary which is nurtured by the ever-present promise of deterritorialized mobility and burgeoning migratory fluxes, walls and fences separating nation-states multiply. This is a burning issue: even though nation states at the centre of the global order increasingly present themselves as postnational, calls for tighter border security undermine utopian notions of both a borderless New Europe and the USA as the Promised Land. This collection investigates the urgent issue of borderscapes and the cinematic imaginary by bringing together a range of new approaches in the field of film and media studies, crossing over into sociology, migration studies and artistic research. The contributions focus on the interrelated motifs of borderscapes as they are represented and used in transnational cinematographies, from Palestine to Sweden, Spain, Finland, Italy, Iran, Iraq, France, the UK and US, and as constituting premises of cinematic production. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Transnational Cinemas journal.

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Author:   Ana Cristina Mendes ,  John Sundholm (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367519070

ISBN 10:   0367519070
Pages:   132
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction – Walls and fortresses: borderscapes and the cinematic imaginary 1. Walled in/walled out in the West Bank: performing separation walls in Hany Abu-Assad’s Omar 2. Mediating migration in Ceuta, Melilla and Barcelona: border thinking and transnationalism from below in independent documentary 3. Spaces of becoming: the Stockholm Film Workshop as a transnational site of film production 4. An island of madness: the social force of mental fortresses – a visual essay 5. After the wall: touring the European border space in post-1989 French-language cinema 6. Digital technology, aesthetic imperfection and political film-making: Illegal bodies in motion 7. Looking from the Border: A Cosmopolitan Approach to Contemporary Cinema

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Ana Cristina Mendes is Assistant Professor of English Studies in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her areas of specialization are cultural and postcolonial studies, with an emphasis on the representations and reception of alterity in the global cultural marketplace. John Sundholm is Professor of Film Studies and Head of the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. He has published widely on minor cinemas and memory studies. He also works as a film programmer/curator and is affiiated to the PhD program in Fine Arts at the University of the Arts in Helsinki, Finland.

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