Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema
«The Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema offers an illuminating analysis of recent thinking on migration and European identity that is both probing and remarkably wide-ranging. Presenting a timely reappraisal of the question of Europe within film studies, Trifonova succeeds in repositioning representations of the migrant, that most peripheral of figures, as a central feature of European cinema.»
Elizabeth Ezra, Professor of Cinema and Culture, University of Stirling, UK
The Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema explores contemporary debates around the concepts of ‘Europe’ and ‘European identity’ through an examination of recent European films dealing with various aspects of globalization (the refugee crisis, labour migration, the resurgence of nationalism and ethnic violence, neoliberalism, post-colonialism) with a particular attention to the figure of the migrant and the ways in which this figure challenges us to rethink Europe and its core Enlightenment values (citizenship, justice, ethics, liberty, tolerance, and hospitality) in a post-national context of ephemerality, volatility, and contingency that finds people desperately looking for firmer markers of identity. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bloomsbury Academic USA
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 288
- ISBN
- 9781501392962
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«The Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema offers an illuminating analysis of recent thinking on migration and European identity that is both probing and remarkably wide-ranging. Presenting a timely reappraisal of the question of Europe within film studies, Trifonova succeeds in repositioning representations of the migrant, that most peripheral of figures, as a central feature of European cinema.»
Elizabeth Ezra, Professor of Cinema and Culture, University of Stirling, UK