Films with legs
Subtitle: crossing borders with foreign language films
By: edited by Rosemary A. Peters and Véronique Maisier
Contributors: Foreign Language Film Conference
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781443832045
Subjects: Foreign language films; Congresses; Foreign films
Notes: Book features research presented in the context of the Foreign Language Film Conference (FLFC) over the course of three years, 2007, 2008, and 2009.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Includes filmographies.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Rosemary Peters and Véronique Maisier; title: Filming history : narrating the past, preparing the future.; title: Visual/virtual memory sites : the case of Assia Djebar  -- Clarisse Zimra ;; title: Southern correspondences and transnationality in recent Argentine films  -- Maria Clark ;; title: History on trial in Chirstian Lara's Sucre amer  -- Véronique Maisier ;; title: Open city and Iraq : understanding occupation and insurgency through Rosellini's lens  -- Kevin Bongiorni; title: National mythologies : crossing borders, creating space.; title: What wall? Watching Leander Haussman's Sonnenallee and Herr Lehmann side by side  -- Carola Daffner ;; title: "More Indian" : Bollywood, South Asian diasporic films, and the representation of women  -- Heather Bingley ;; title: Israeli cinema in a global context : reclaiming a minoritarian status  -- Nava Dushi ;; title: National cinema studies reconsidered : The goat horn and Road in the context of globalization, nationalism and cinema studies -- Sevinç Türkkan.; title: Physical matters : mapping identities.; title: Spaces of exile and youth deliquency in recent Spanish cinema  -- Jason E. Klodt ;; title: Valentín : the power of storytelling  -- Judith García-Quismondo García ;; title: Crosssing borders of heteronormativity in Mexican cinema : tragedy or comedy?  -- Kevan Self ;; title: Able language, disabled narrative : Mar adentro and Le scaphandre et le papillon  -- Rosemay A. Peters; title: Talking movies : translations and adaptations.; title: Stanley Kubrick's Eyes wide shut : decadent European and American myth  -- Serge Bokobza ;; title: Die Nibelung revisited : the remake of a classic for internaional audiences  -- Christiane K. Eydt-Beebe ;; title: Filmic springboards : exploring British, German, French and American gothic literature through the lens of film  -- Fred Yaniga and Eloïse Sureau-Hale; title: Conclusion -- Rosemary Peters and Véronique Maisier.