There's No Place Like Home
Subtitle: The Migrant Child in World Cinema
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781784534233
Subjects: Motion pictures, social aspects
Description: This book offers a fresh interpretation of the migrant child as a recurring figure in world cinema. Displaced or placeless children, and the idea of childhood itself, are vehicles to examine migration and cosmopolitanism in films such as Le Ballon Rouge, Sammy Going South and Le Havre. Surveying fictional and documentary film from the post-war years until today, the author shows how the child is a guide to themes of place, self and being in world cinema.