Cinematic homecomings : exile and return in transnational cinema / edited by Rebecca Prime.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prime, Rebecca, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration in motion pictures.

Return migration in motion pictures.

Homeland in motion pictures.

Nostalgia in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

vi, 324 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY, USA ; London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2015.

Contents:

Introduction / Rebecca Prime

Transatlantic modes of production. Come back to Erin: themes of exile and return in the "O' Kalem" films / Peter Flynn

Alexander Korda and Peter Lorre: Central European exile and the illusion of return / Catherine Portuges

From blacklists to black films: the Hollywood radicals return home / Rebecca Prime

Nostalgic visions, imagined homelands. Between longing and belonging: diasporic return in contemporary South Korean cinema / We Jung Yi

Ages of Russian nostalgia: "Nostalgia", "Window to Paris", and "Brother 2" / Milla Federova

Beyond return in Turkish diasporic cinema / Silvia Kratzer

Exilic subjectivity and the politics of return. Staying home: Cuban exile film from within / Mariana Johnson

Chilean exile cinema and its homecoming documentaries / Jose Miguel Palacios

Burning straw men: the 1979 revolution and Bahman Farmanara's stubborn cosmopolitanism / Matthew Holtmeier

Re-visioning the past. Returning to rubble: Fritz Kortner's "The last illusion" / Martina Moeller

Healing journeys: return as therapy in "Walk on water" / Ido Ramati

The roving gaze. Narratives of return in the films of Ousmane Sembene and Djibril Diop / Malini Guha

Sleeping with strangers: queering home and identity in "I don't want to sleep alone" / Kai-man Chang

A Moroccan homecoming: the fabulation of family and home in Izza Ginini's "Retrouver oulad moumen" / Stefanie Van de Peer

Zero degrees of separation: post-exilic return in Denis Villeneuve's "Incendies" / Claudia Kotte

Afterword / Dina Iordanova.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

ISBN:

9781441124470

1441124470

OCLC:

895114364