Other in Contemporary Migrant Cinema

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Other in Contemporary Migrant Cinema

Imagining a New Europe?

Films, cinema Literary studies: postcolonial literature Regional / International studies Popular culture Media studies Migration, immigration and emigration Ethnic studies Sociology Social and cultural anthropology International relations Political campaigning and advertising Colonialism and imperialism

Author: Guido Rings

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Collection: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 8th January 2016

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 8 Mb

ISBN: 9781317360049


As a rapidly aging continent, Europe increasingly depends on the successful integration of migrants. Unfortunately, contemporary political and media discourses observe and frequently also support the development of nationalist, eurosceptic and xenophobic reactions to immigration and growing multiethnicity. Confronting this trend, European cinema has developed and disseminated new transcultural and postcolonial alternatives that might help to improve integration and community cohesion in Europe, and this book investigates these alternatives in order to identify examples of good practices that can enhance European stability. While the cinematic spectrum is as wide and open as most notions of Europeanness, the films examined share a fundamental interest in the Other. In this qualitative film analysis approach, particular consideration is given to British, French, German, and Spanish productions, and a comparison of multiethnic conviviality in Chicano cinema.

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