Films with legs : crossing borders with foreign language films / edited by Rosemary A. Peters and Veronique Maisier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maisier-Eynon, Véronique.

Peters, Rosemary A.

Foreign Language Film Conference.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign films--Congresses.

Foreign films.

Foreign language films--Congresses.

Foreign language films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.

Language Note:

English

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...

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

ABLE LANGUAGE, DISABLED NARRATIVEPART IV; STANLEY KUBRICK'S EYES WIDE SHUT; DIE NIBELUNGEN REVISITED; FILMIC SPRINGBOARDS; CONCLUSION; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includees bibliographies and filmographies as well as index.

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ISBN:

1-283-43587-X

9786613435873

1-4438-3262-6

OCLC:

817056983