Frontiers of Screen History
Imagining European Borders in Cinema, 1945-2010
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
272 pages
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70 halftones
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7 x 9
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© 2013
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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Tom Conley
Introduction: Encounters with Borders
Kimmo Ahonen, Raita Merivirta, Heta Mulari and Rami Mähkä
Worlds Divided by the Iron Curtain
1 Imagining West Berlin: Spatiality and History in Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire, 1987
Hannu Salmi
2 ‘What’s Wrong with a Cowboy in Hamburg?’: New German Cinema and the German-American Cultural Frontier
Jacqui Miller
3 The Collapse of Ideaologies in Peter Kahane’s The Architects
Marco Bohr
4 How to Win the Cold War: Borders of the Free World in Guilty of Treason (1950) and Red Planet Mars (1952)
Kimmo Ahonen
Alternative Cultural Locations
5 Crossing Over: On Becoming European in Aki Kaurismäki’s Cinema
Sanna Peden
6 Looking for Alternative London: The London Nobody Knows and the Pop-Geographical Borders of the City
Kari Kallioniemi
7 The Cité’s Architectural, Linguistic and Cinematic Frontiers in L’Esquive
Jehanne-Marie Gavarini
Borders Crossed, Borders Within
8 Between Hamburg and Istanbul: Mobility, Borders and Identity in the Films of Fatih Akin
Jessica Gallagher
9 Transnational Heroines: Swedish Youth Film and Immigrant Girlhood
Heta Mulari
10 Family as Internal Border in Dogtooth
Ipek A. Celik
Post-Colonial Borders and Cultural Frontiers
11 Gendered Conflicts in Northern Ireland: Motherhood, the Male Body and Borders in Some Mother’s Son and Hunger
Raita Merivirta
12 Heartlands and Borderlands: El Dorado and the Post-Franco Spanish Cinema as a Bridgehead between Europe and Latin America
Petteri Halin
13 Subverted and Transgressed Borders: The Empire in British Comedy and Horror Films
Rami Mähkä
Notes on Contributors
Index
Foreword
Tom Conley
Introduction: Encounters with Borders
Kimmo Ahonen, Raita Merivirta, Heta Mulari and Rami Mähkä
Worlds Divided by the Iron Curtain
1 Imagining West Berlin: Spatiality and History in Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire, 1987
Hannu Salmi
2 ‘What’s Wrong with a Cowboy in Hamburg?’: New German Cinema and the German-American Cultural Frontier
Jacqui Miller
3 The Collapse of Ideaologies in Peter Kahane’s The Architects
Marco Bohr
4 How to Win the Cold War: Borders of the Free World in Guilty of Treason (1950) and Red Planet Mars (1952)
Kimmo Ahonen
Alternative Cultural Locations
5 Crossing Over: On Becoming European in Aki Kaurismäki’s Cinema
Sanna Peden
6 Looking for Alternative London: The London Nobody Knows and the Pop-Geographical Borders of the City
Kari Kallioniemi
7 The Cité’s Architectural, Linguistic and Cinematic Frontiers in L’Esquive
Jehanne-Marie Gavarini
Borders Crossed, Borders Within
8 Between Hamburg and Istanbul: Mobility, Borders and Identity in the Films of Fatih Akin
Jessica Gallagher
9 Transnational Heroines: Swedish Youth Film and Immigrant Girlhood
Heta Mulari
10 Family as Internal Border in Dogtooth
Ipek A. Celik
Post-Colonial Borders and Cultural Frontiers
11 Gendered Conflicts in Northern Ireland: Motherhood, the Male Body and Borders in Some Mother’s Son and Hunger
Raita Merivirta
12 Heartlands and Borderlands: El Dorado and the Post-Franco Spanish Cinema as a Bridgehead between Europe and Latin America
Petteri Halin
13 Subverted and Transgressed Borders: The Empire in British Comedy and Horror Films
Rami Mähkä
Notes on Contributors
Index
Review Quotes
Tom Conley, Harvard University
“Vigorously written, each chapter is a piece in a kaleidoscope showing that what informs cinema and national conflict in one area can be refracted through others.”
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