Over the last several decades, the boundaries of languages and
national and ethnic identities have been shifting, altering the
notion of borders around the world. Borderland areas, such as East
and West Europe, the US/Mexican frontera, and the Middle East,
serve as places of cultural transfer and exchange, as well as
arenas of violent conflict and segregation. As communities around
the world merge across national borders, new multi-ethnic and
multicultural countries have become ever more common. Border
Visions: Identity and Diaspora in Film offers an overview of global
cinema that addresses borders as spaces of hybridity and change. In
this collection of essays, contributors examine how cinema portrays
conceptions of borderlands informed by knowledge, politics, art,
memory, and lived experience, and how these constructions
contribute to a changing global community. These essays analyze a
variety of international feature films and documentaries that focus
on the lives, cultures, and politics of borderlands. The essays
discuss the ways in which conflicts and their resolutions occur in
borderlands and how they are portrayed on film. The volume pays
special attention to contemporary Europe, where the topic of
shifting border identities is one of the main driving forces in the
processes of European unification. Among the filmmakers whose work
is discussed in this volume are Fatih Akin, Montxo Armendariz, Cary
Fukunaga, Christoph Hochhausler, Holger Jancke, Emir Kusturica,
Laila Pakalnina, Alex Rivera, Larissa Shepitko, Andrea Staka, Elia
Suleiman, and Istvan Szabo. A significant contribution to the
dialogue on global cinema, Border Visions will be of interest to
students and scholars of film, but also to scholars in border
studies, gender studies, sociology, and political science.
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