Cinematic homecomings
Subtitle: exile and return in transnational cinema
By: edited by Rebecca Prime
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781441124470
Subjects: Emigration and immigration in motion pictures; Return migration in motion pictures; Homeland in motion pictures; Nostalgia in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Rebecca Prime; title: Transatlantic modes of production. Come back to Erin: themes of exile and return in the "O' Kalem" films / Peter Flynn; title: Alexander Korda and Peter Lorre: Central European exile and the illusion of return / Catherine Portuges; title: From blacklists to black films: the Hollywood radicals return home / Rebecca Prime; title: Nostalgic visions, imagined homelands. Between longing and belonging: diasporic return in contemporary South Korean cinema / We Jung Yi; title: Ages of Russian nostalgia: "Nostalgia" , "Window to Paris", and "Brother 2" / Milla Federova; title: Beyond return in Turkish diasporic cinema / Silvia Kratzer; title: Exilic subjectivity and the politics of return. Staying home: Cuban exile film from within / Mariana Johnson; title: Chilean exile cinema and its homecoming documentaries / Jose Miguel Palacios; title: Burning straw men: the 1979 revolution and Bahman Farmanara's stubborn cosmopolitanism / Matthew Holtmeier; title: Re-visioning the past. Returning to rubble: Fritz Kortner's "The last illusion" / Martina Moeller; title: Healing journeys: return as therapy in "Walk on water" / Ido Ramati; title: The roving gaze. Narratives of return in the films of Ousmane Sembene and Djibril Diop / Malini Guha; title: Sleeping with strangers: queering home and identity in "I don't want to sleep alone" / Kai-man Chang; title: A Moroccan homecoming: the fabulation of family and home in Izza Ginini's "Retrouver oulad moumen" / Stefanie Van de Peer; title: Zero degrees of separation: post-exilic return in Denis Villeneuve's "Incendies" / Claudia Kotte; title: Afterword / Dina Iordanova.