In permanent crisis : ethnicity in contemporary European media and cinema / Ipek A. Celik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Çelik Rappas, I̊pek A., 1977-

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity in motion pictures.

Refugees in motion pictures.

Emigration and immigration in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Europe--History--21st century.

Motion pictures.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Refugees, migrants, and minorities of migrant origin frequently appear in European mainstream news in emergency situations: victims of human trafficking, suspects of terrorism, "bogus" asylum seekers. Through analysis of work by established filmmakers Michael Haneke, Fatih Akin, and Alfonso Cuarón, In Permanent Crisis contemplates the way mass media depictions become invoked by film to frame ethnic and racial Otherness in Europe as adornments of catastrophe. Special attention is given here to European auteur films in which riots, terrorism, criminal activities, and honor killings bring Europe's minorities to the forefront of public visibility only to reduce them to perpetrators or victims of violence. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Mapping the representation of ethnicity in Europe

Refugees and humanitarianism in a dystopic Europe: Alfonso Cuarón's Children of men

The thrill of French colonial history: Michael Haneke's Hidden

Balkan borders and transgressions: Constantinos Giannaris's Hostage

Ethnicity and melodrama in the German media and Fatih Akin's Head-on

Epilogue: The overarcing trope of victimhood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-186) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472072729

9780472052721

9780472121212

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.7813663

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