Migrants' Perspectives, Migrants in Perspective : World Cinema
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| Title: | Migrants' Perspectives, Migrants in Perspective : World Cinema |
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| Description: | Presenting the depiction of migration through a variety of cinematic outlets, this volume explores film's depiction of human displacement in different geographic circumstances and probes the reasons why cinema so frequently evokes a stereotype of in-transit people. Techniques of affect and distance are revealed in the contributors'close film studies of wide-ranging matter which include works by the Dardenne brothers, transnational video artists Ghazel and Bouchra Khalili, and studies of Syrian films at Western festivals. Migrants'Perspective, Migrants in Perspective: World Cinema deciphers the semiotics of migration and its representation in cinema, exploring both the complications of shooting a migrant subject, and the challenges of including the migrants'point of view. |
| Authors: | Nicole Beth Wallenbrock, Frank Jacob |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Immigrants in motion pictures |
| Categories: | PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Presenting the depiction of migration through a variety of cinematic outlets, this volume explores film's depiction of human displacement in different geographic circumstances and probes the reasons why cinema so frequently evokes a stereotype of in-transit people. Techniques of affect and distance are revealed in the contributors'close film studies of wide-ranging matter which include works by the Dardenne brothers, transnational video artists Ghazel and Bouchra Khalili, and studies of Syrian films at Western festivals. Migrants'Perspective, Migrants in Perspective: World Cinema deciphers the semiotics of migration and its representation in cinema, exploring both the complications of shooting a migrant subject, and the challenges of including the migrants'point of view. |
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| ISBN: | 9781474456760 9781474456784 9781474456791 |
