Screen borders
eBook - ePub

Screen borders

From Calais to cinƩma-monde

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Screen borders

From Calais to cinƩma-monde

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of figures
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 The human geography of borders: Stations, screens, and tunnels
  10. 2 (Un)inhabiting and travelling the border: Ports and watery borderlands from Calais to Lesbos
  11. 3 Touring borderland Europe in airport cinema
  12. 4 Screen borders and ā€˜cinema worldsā€™: Migrants and the Mediterranean in Italianā€“French co-productions
  13. 5 Beyond bridges and tunnels: The border imaginary of European TV series
  14. Conclusion: Borderlands and interfaces
  15. References
  16. Index