Mobility and Migration in Film and Moving Image Art: Cinema Beyond Europe

ISBN-13: 9781138575721 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 214 str.

Bayraktar, Nilgun (California College of the Arts, USA)

Opis

This book examines the historical and contemporary tensions around mobility and identity in Europe in relation to experimental moving image practices in contemporary art and cinema.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.