European Cinema in Motion Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary Europe

by Berghahn, Daniela; Sternberg, Claudia

• ISBN13: 9781137390196
• ISBN10: 1137390190
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-03-14
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Transnational mobility and migration are amongst the most powerful forces of social transformation in the contemporary world. Over the past three decades, representations of migrant and diasporic experiences and the dynamics of postmodern multiculturalism have assumed a prominent position in European mainstream and art house cinema. Filmmakers with a migratory background have brought about the World Cinema turn in European cinema by introducing new narratives and by fusing Western and non-Western aesthetic traditions. European Cinema in Motion develops an original theory of migrant and diasporic cinema and provides an overview of its cultural and industrial contexts in Europe. Representative case studies of more than eighty films adopt a comparative perspective in the search for the commonalities and differences between productions from Western, Southern and Eastern Europe. The contributions reflect the wide spectrum of this important new field at the interface of (trans)national, European and World Cinema. The paperback features a new preface by the editors, which reflects on the developments in scholarship since the hardback edition.

Author Biography

Daniela Berghahn is Professor of Film Studies in the Media Arts Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. She is author of Hollywood Behind the Wall: The Cinema of East Germany (2005) and Far-Flung Families in Film: The Diasporic Family in Contemporary European Cinema (2013).

Claudia Sternberg is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds. She is the co-author of Bidding for the Mainstream? Black and Asian British Film since the 1990s (2004) and Der Erste Weltkrieg und die Mediendiskurse der Erinnerung (2005).

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsPreface
Introduction
1. Locating Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe; D. Berghahn and C. Sternberg
2. Migration and Cinematic Process in Post-Cold War Europe; D. Iordanova
3. State and Other Funding for Migrant, Diasporic and World Cinemas in Europe; A. Jäckel
4. Nostalgic Journeys in Post-Soviet Cinema: Towards a Lost Home?; B. Beumers
5. Transculturation in German and Spanish Migrant and Diasporic Cinema: On Constrained Spaces and Minor Intimacies in Princesses and A Little Bit of Freedom; E. G. Rodríguez
6. The Dark Side of Hybridity: Contemporary Black and Asian British Cinema; S. Malik
7. Body Matters: Immigrants in Recent Spanish, Italian and Greek Cinemas; I. Santaolalla
8. Gendering Diaspora: The Work of Diasporic Women Filmmakers in Western Europe; C. Tarr
9. Queering the Diaspora; J. S. Williams
10. Sound Bridges: Transnational Mobility as Ironic Melodrama; D. Göktürk
11. Coming of Age in 'the Hood': The Diasporic Youth Film and Questions of Genre; D. Berghahn
12. Migration, Diaspora and Metacinematic Reflection; C. Sternberg
13. Future Imperfect: Some Onward Perspectives on Migrant and Diasporic Film Practice; G. Jones
Filmography
Index