Screen Borders
From Calais to CineMa-Monde
1st Edition
Published on 23. May 2023
224 pages
978-1-5261-6424-7 (ISBN)
Description
Film and television offer important insights into social outlooks on borders in France and Europe more generally. This book undertakes a visual cultural history of contemporary borders through a film and television tour. It traces on-screen borders from the Gare du Nord train station in Paris to Calais, London, Lampedusa and Lapland. It contends that different types of mobilities and immobilities (refugees, urban commuters, workers in a post-industrial landscape) and vantage points (from borderland forests, ports, train stations, airports, refugee centers) are all part of a complex French and European border narrative. It covers a wide range of examples, from popular films and TV series to auteur fiction and documentaries by well-known directors from across Europe and beyond. -- .
Reviews / Votes
'This book is a welcome and wide-ranging intervention in the field of trans - national film and television studies. Readers... will emerge with a rich, complex, and nuanced vantage point on recent European media production from within and without.'The French Review -- .
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
20 black & white illustrations
20 black & white illustrations
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-6424-7 (9781526164247)
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Book
05/2023
Manchester University Press
€125.20
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Person
Michael Gott is Professor of French and Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati -- .
Content
Introduction
1 The human geography of borders: Stations, screens, and tunnels
2 (Un)inhabiting and traveling the border: Ports and watery borderlands from Calais to Lesbos
3 Touring borderland Europe in airport cinema
4 Screen borders and 'cinema worlds': Migrants and the Mediterranean in Italian-French co-productions
5 Beyond bridges and tunnels: The border imaginary of European TV series
Conclusion: Borderlands and interfaces
Index -- .
1 The human geography of borders: Stations, screens, and tunnels
2 (Un)inhabiting and traveling the border: Ports and watery borderlands from Calais to Lesbos
3 Touring borderland Europe in airport cinema
4 Screen borders and 'cinema worlds': Migrants and the Mediterranean in Italian-French co-productions
5 Beyond bridges and tunnels: The border imaginary of European TV series
Conclusion: Borderlands and interfaces
Index -- .
