Refugees and Migrants in Contemporary Film, Art and Media / / ed. by Deniz Bayrakdar, Robert Burgoyne.

Migration in the 21st century is one of the pre-eminent issues of our present historical moment, a phenomenon that has acquired new urgency with accelerating climate change, civil wars, and growing economic scarcities. Refugees and Migrants in Film, Art and Media consists of eleven essays that explo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Media, Culture and Communication in Migrant Societies ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Refugees and Migrants in Contemporary Film, Art, and Media
  • Part I
  • 1. Moving Peoples and Motion Pictures: Migration in Film and Other Media
  • 2. Modes of Self-Representation in the Images Collectively Produced by Migrants in Lésbos Island: Natives of the New World
  • 3. Abstraction, Bare Life, and Counternarratives of Mobility in the Refugee Films of Richard Mosse and Ai Weiwei, Incoming and Human Flow
  • 4. Across the Sonorous Desert: Sounding Migration in El Mar la Mar
  • 5. Dislodged from History, Confronted by Walls : Picturing Migration as a Global Emergency
  • 6. Virtual Reality and Immersive Representation in Recent Refugee Narratives
  • Part II
  • 7. The Secret Life of Waste: Recycling Dreams of Migration
  • 8. Waiting in Line, Moving in Circles : Spaces of Instability in Christian Petzold’s Transit
  • 9. Migrant Bodies in the Land/City/ Seascapes of 2000s Turkish Cinema
  • 10. Third World On the Move: Cinematic Destination Belgrade/Serbia
  • 11. On the Borderlines of South-Eastern Europe : Migration in the Films of Aida Begić and Želimir Žilnik
  • Conclusion (Speculative)
  • References
  • Index