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1 online resource (284 pages) |
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text file |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Contextualizing Immigration Cinema; Chapter 1: Race, Mobile Masculinities, and Class; Chapter 2: Female Transnational Migrations and Diasporas; Chapter 3: Human Trafficking and the Global Sex Slave Trade; Chapter 4: Queer Immigration and Diasporas: Performative Identities, Cross-Dressing Displacement/Assimilation; Chapter 5: The European Family in the Face of Otherness: Family Metaphors and the Redemption of White Guilt. |
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Chapter 6: Border-Crossing Road Movies: Inverted Odysseys and Roads to DystopiaChapter 7: Identities In-Between in Diasporic Cinema; Index of Films; Back Cover. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Emigration and immigration in motion pictures.
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Emigration and immigration in motion pictures. |
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Motion pictures -- Europe -- History.
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Motion pictures. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
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Immigrants in motion pictures.
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Immigrants in motion pictures. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ballesteros, Isolina, 1960- Immigration cinema in the New Europe. 9781783204113 1783204117 |
| ISBN |
9781783204250 (NL) |
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1783204257 (NL) |
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9781783204113 |
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1783204117 |
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