Immigration Cinema in the New Europe /
Isolina Ballesteros
- Bristol, UK. : Intellect, 2015
- xv, 265 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Immigration Cinema in the New Europe examines a variety of films from the early 1990s that depict and address the lives and identities of both first-generation immigrants and children of the diaspora in Europe. Whether they are authored by immigrants themselves or by white Europeans who use the resources and means of production of dominant cinema to politically engage with the immigrants' predicaments, these films, Isolina Ballesteros shows, are unmappable-a condition resulting from immigration cinema's re-combination and deliberate blurring of filmic conventions pertaining to two or more genr.
Includes bibliographical references and index
9781783204113 (pbk) $40.00
Emigration and immigration in motion pictures Motion pictures--History--Europe Immigrants in motion pictures Immigrants in motion pictures