[Commlist] New Book: Screen Borders

Michael Gott is pleased to announce that the monograph /Screen Borders: 
From Calais to cinéma-monde/was just published by Manchester University 
Press. There will be a paperback forthcoming.


Description:


https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526164230/screen-borders/

Film and television offer important insights into social outlooks on 
borders in France and Europe more generally. This book undertakes a 
visual cultural history of contemporary borders through a film and 
television tour. It traces on-screen borders from the Gare du Nord train 
station in Paris to Calais, London, Lampedusa and Lapland. It contends 
that different types of mobilities and immobilities (refugees, urban 
commuters, workers in a post-industrial landscape) and vantage points 
(from borderland forests, ports, train stations, airports, refugee 
centers) are all part of a complex French and European border narrative. 
It covers a wide range of examples, from popular films and TV series to 
auteur fiction and documentaries by well-known directors from across 
Europe and beyond.


Contents:

*Introduction
1 The human geography of borders: Stations, screens, and tunnels
2 (Un)inhabiting and traveling the border: Ports and watery borderlands 
from Calais to Lesbos
3 Touring borderland Europe in airport cinema
4 Screen borders and 'cinema worlds': Migrants and the Mediterranean in 
Italian-French co-productions
5 Beyond bridges and tunnels: The border imaginary of European TV series
Conclusion: Borderlands and interfaces*


You can read this short blog post about it on the MUP website.


https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2023/04/18/screen-borders-from-calais-to-cinema-monde/ 

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