Immigration cinema in the new Europe

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Label

Immigration cinema in the new Europe

Statement of responsibility

Isolina Ballesteros

Creator

• Ballesteros, Isolina, 1960-

Subject

• Emigration and immigration in motion pictures
• Immigrants in motion pictures
• Motion pictures -- Europe -- History

Language

eng

Summary

Immigration Cinema in the New Europe examines a variety of films from the early 1990s that depict and address the lives and identities of both first-generation immigrants and children of the diaspora in Europe. Whether they are authored by immigrants themselves or by white Europeans who use the resources and means of production of dominant cinema to politically engage with the immigrants' predicaments, these films, Isolina Ballesteros shows, are unmappable--a condition resulting from immigration cinema's recombination and deliberate blurring of filmic conventions pertaining to two or more genres. In an age of globalization and increased migration, this book theorizes immigration cinema in relation to notions such as gender, hybridity, transculturation, border crossing, transnationalism, and translation--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography