Immigration Cinema in the New Europe.

Summary: Immigration Cinema in the New Europe examines a variety of films from the early 1990s that depict and address the lives and identities of both first-generation immigrants and children of the diaspora in Europe. Whether they are authored by immigrants themselves or by white Europeans who use the resources and means of production of dominant cinema to politically engage with the immigrants' predicaments, these films, Isolina Ballesteros shows, are unmappable-a condition resulting from immigration cinema's re-combination and deliberate blurring of filmic conventions pertaining to two or more genr.

Record details

ISBN: 1783204117
ISBN: 9781783204113
ISBN: 1783204257
ISBN: 9781783204250
Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 pages)
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Publisher: Bristol : Intellect, 2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:august.16 Multi-User. Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Chapter 6: Border-Crossing Road Movies: Inverted Odysseys and Roads to DystopiaChapter 7: Identities In-Between in Diasporic Cinema; Index of Films; Back Cover.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions: NLC students and staff only. Access restricted by subscription.
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Source of Description Note:	Print version record.