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Screen borders

From Calais to cinéma-monde

By Michael Gott

Screen borders
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  • ISBN: 9781526164230
  • Publish Date: May 2023
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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    • Format: Hardcover
    • Pages: 224
    • Price: £85.00
    • Published Date: May 2023

    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.

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    '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

    Contents

    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

    Author

    Michael Gott is Professor of French and Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati

    Screen borders

    By Michael Gott

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