Cinematic homecomings
Subtitle: exile and return in transnational cinema
By: edited by Rebecca Prime
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781501300226
Subjects: Emigration and immigration in motion pictures; Homeland in motion pictures; Nostalgia in motion pictures; Return migration in motion pictures
Description: The history of cinema charts multiple histories of exile. From the German émigrés in 1930s Hollywood to today's Iranian filmmakers in Europe and the United States, these histories continue to exert a profound influence on the evolution of cinematic narratives and aesthetics. But while the effect of exile and diaspora on film practice has been fruitfully explored from both historical and contemporary perspectives, the issues raised by return, whether literal or metaphorical, have yet to be fully considered. Cinematic Homecomings expands upon existing studies of transnational cinema by addressing the questions raised by reverse migration and the return home in a variety of historical and national contexts, from postcolonialism to post-Communism. By looking beyond exile, the contributors offer a multidirectional perspective on the relationship between migration, mobility, and transnational cinema. 'Narratives of return' are among the most popular themes of the contemporary cinema of countries ranging from Morocco to Cuba to the Soviet Union. This speaks to both the sociocultural reality of reverse migration and to its significance on the imagination of the nation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Rebecca Prime; title: Transatlantic modes of production. Come back to Erin: themes of exile and return in the "O' Kalem" films; title: Peter Flynn; title: Alexander Korda and Peter Lorre: Central European exile and the illusion of return; title: Catherine Portuges; title: From blacklists to black films: the Hollywood radicals return home; title: Rebecca Prime; title: Nostalgic visions, imagined homelands. Between longing and belonging: diasporic return in contemporary South Korean cinema; title: We Jung Yi; title: Ages of Russian nostalgia: "Nostalgia" , "Window to Paris", and "Brother 2"; title: Milla Federova; title: Beyond return in Turkish diasporic cinema; title: Silvia Kratzer; title: Exilic subjectivity and the politics of return. Staying home: Cuban exile film from within; title: Mariana Johnson; title: Chilean exile cinema and its homecoming documentaries; title: Jose Miguel Palacios; title: Burning straw men: the 1979 revolution and Bahman Farmanara's stubborn cosmopolitanism; title: Matthew Holtmeier; title: Re-visioning the past. Returning to rubble: Fritz Kortner's "The last illusion"; title: Martina Moeller; title: Healing journeys: return as therapy in "Walk on water"; title: Ido Ramati; title: The roving gaze. Narratives of return in the films of Ousmane Sembene and Djibril Diop; title: Malini Guha; title: Sleeping with strangers: queering home and identity in "I don't want to sleep alone"; title: Kai-man Chang; title: A Moroccan homecoming: the fabulation of family and home in Izza Ginini's "Retrouver oulad moumen"; title: Stefanie Van de Peer; title: Zero degrees of separation: post-exilic return in Denis Villeneuve's "Incendies"; title: Claudia Kotte; title: Afterword; title: Dina Iordanova.