Journeys on Screen: Theory, Ethics, Aesthetics

ISBN-13: 9781474421836 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 320 str.

Louis Bayman; Natalia Pinazza

Opis

Addressing the appeal of the journey narrative from pre-cinema to new media and through documentary, fiction and the spaces between, this collection reveals the journey to be a persistent presence across cinema and in cultural modernity.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section 1: Mapping Cinematic Journeys: Chronotopes of Journeys; Chapter One: Global Visions: Around-the-World Travel and Visual Culture in Early Modernity, Tiago de Luca; Chapter Two: Brief Encounters: The Railway Station on Film, Lucy Mazdon; Chapter Three: Diasporic dreams and shattered desires: displacement, identity and tradition in Heaven on Earth (Deepa Mehta 2008), Clelia Clini; Chapter Four: Chronotopic ghosts and quiet men: José Luis Guerín's Innisfree, Michael Pigott; Chapter Five: Memories, Notebooks, Roads: The Essayistic Journey in Time and Space, Adam Ludford Freeman; Section 1a: Expanding Europe: Intersistial Production and Border-Crossing in Easter European Cinema; Chapter Six: Shadows of Unforgotten Ancestors: Representations of Estonian Mass Deportations of the 1940s in In the Crosswind (2014) and Body Memory (2011), Eva Näripea; Chapter Seven: The Holocaust and the Cinematic Landscapes of Postmemory in Lithuania, Hungary and Ukraine, Maurizio Cinquegrani; Chapter Eight: Hesitant Journeys: fugitive and migrant narratives in the new Romanian Cinema, László Strausz; Chapter Nine: Women on the Road: Representing Female Mobility in Contemporary Hungarian-Romanian Co-Productions, Hajnal Király; Section 2: Form and Narrative in Journey Genres; Chapter Ten: The Sense of an Ending: Music, Time and Romance in Before Sunrise, Carlo Cenciarelli; Chapter Eleven: Moving in Circles: Kinetic Elite and Kinetic Proletariat in the ‘End of the World’ Films, Ewa Mazierska; Chapter Twelve: Transnational productions and regional funding: Border-crossing, European locations and the case of contemporary horror, Stefano Baschiera; Section 2a: The Politics of the Road Movie; Chapter Thirteen: Colonialism in Latin American Road Movies, Natália Pinazza; Chapter Fourteen: Spaces of failure: The gendering of neoliberal mobilities in the U.S. indie road movie, Anna Cooper; Chapter Fifteen: Sic transit: the serial killer road movie, Louis Bayman; Notes on Contributors