Mobility and Migration in Film and Moving Image Art

Cinema Beyond Europe
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-85883-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

Mobility and Migration in Film and Moving Image Art explores cinematic and artistic representations of migration and mobility in Europe from the 1990s to today. Drawing on theories of migrant and diasporic cinema, moving-image art, and mobility studies, Bayraktar provides historically situated close readings of films, videos, and cinematic installations that concern migratory networks and infrastructures across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Probing the notion of Europe as a coherent entity and a borderless space, this interdisciplinary study investigates the ways in which European ideals of mobility and fluidity are deeply enmeshed with forced migration, illegalization, and xenophobia. With a specific focus on distinct forms of mobility such as labor migration, postcolonial migration, tourism, and refugee mobilities, Bayraktar studies the new counter-hegemonic imaginations invoked by the work of filmmakers such as Ayse Polat, Fatih Akin, Michael Haneke, and Tony Gatlif as well as video essays and installations of artists such as Kutlug Ataman, Ursula Biemann, Ergin Çavusoglu, Maria Iorio and Raphaël Cuomo. Challenging aesthetic as well as national, cultural, and political boundaries, the works central to this book envision Europe as a diverse, inclusive, and unfixed continent that is reimagined from many elsewheres well beyond its borders.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bayraktar, Nilgun

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Cinematic and Artistic Takes on Migration and Mobility in Contemporary Europe Part I. Transnational Flows in Cinema 1. Cross-Border Mobility and Confinement in Turkish German Cinema: Countess Sophia Hatun and The Edge of Heaven 2. Performative Encounters and Mediated Memories in Maghrebi French Cinema: Exiles and Hidden Part II. Fragmented Journeys in Moving Image Art 3. Location and Urban Marginality in the Site-Specific Video Installation Küba 4. Tourism and Undocumented Migration in Southern Europe: The Video Essay Sudeuropa 5. Social Infrastructures of Undocumented Mobility in the Multiscreen Video Installation Sahara Chronicle Afterword: Points of Departure

Über Autor(innen)

Nilgün Bayraktar is an Assistant Professor in the Visual Studies Program at the California College of the Arts. She received her PhD in Performance Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Film & Media Studies from University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on transnational cinema, migratory aesthetics, film/video installations, site-specific art, new media, and performance.