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1 online resource (xxiii, 232 pages) : illustrations |
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Note |
Book features resarch presented in the context of the Foreign Lanaguage Film Conference (FLFC) over the course of three years, 2007, 2008, and 2009. |
Bibliography |
Includees bibliographies and filmographies as well as index. |
Contents |
TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; VISUAL / VIRTUAL MEMORY SITES; SOUTHERN CORRESPONDENCES AND TRANSNATIONALITY IN RECENT ARGENTINE FILM; HISTORY ON TRIAL IN CHRISTIAN LARA'S SUCRE AMER; OPEN CITY AND IRAQ; PART II; WHAT WALL?WATCHING LEANDER HAUßMANN'S SONNENALLEE AND HERR LEHMANN SIDE BY SIDE; MORE INDIAN; ISRAELI CINEMA IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT; NATIONAL CINEMA STUDIES RECONSIDERED; PART III; SPACES OF EXILE AND YOUTH DELINQUENCY IN RECENT SPANISH CINEMA; VALENTÍN; CROSSING BORDERS OF HETERONORMATIVITY IN MEXICAN CINEMA. |
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ABLE LANGUAGE, DISABLED NARRATIVEPART IV; STANLEY KUBRICK'S EYES WIDE SHUT; DIE NIBELUNGEN REVISITED; FILMIC SPRINGBOARDS; CONCLUSION; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX. |
Summary |
Films With Legs: Crossing Borders with Foreign-Language Films addresses the ways in which international cinematic traditions both erect borders and blur them or tear them down. Each chapter of this book examines both real and perceived borders, their representation on the screen and the ways in which they manifest in filmic texts that can also be cultural documents and political statements. The fifteen articles included here discuss films made by twenty-four directors, with dialogue in nine f ... |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Foreign language films -- Congresses.
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Foreign language films. |
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Foreign films -- Congresses.
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Foreign films. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Added Author |
Peters, Rosemary A.
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Maisier, Véronique.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 1443832049 9781443832045 |
ISBN |
1443832626 (electronic book) |
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9781443832625 (electronic book) |
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128343587X |
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9781283435871 |
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1443832049 |
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9781443832045 |
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