Journeys on Screen

Theory, Ethics, Aesthetics
Herausgeber: Bayman, Louis; Pinazza, Natalia

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 233mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781474474641
• ISBN-10: 1474474640
• Artikelnr.: 59914613

Autorenporträt

Louis Bayman is a lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Southampton. He holds a PhD from King's College, London and has published various articles on popular genres especially in relation to Italian cinema, serial killer cinema, film aesthetics and retro and nostalgia. He is author of the monograph The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama (2014) and co-editor of the collection Popular Italian Cinema. Natália Pinazza is a lecturer in Portuguese Studies at the University of Exeter. She holds a PhD and MA from University of Bath and a BA from University of São Paulo. She undertook a UNESCO fellowship at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Pinazza's previous publications include New Approaches to Lusophone Culture, Journeys in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema: Road Films in a Global Era, World Cinema Directory: Brazil, and World Film Locations: São Paulo. She has published in journals such as the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and Alphaville: Journal of Media and Film Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

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