Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema
This exciting and original volume offers the first comprehensive critical study of the recent profusion of European films and television addressing sexual migration and seeking to capture the lives and experiences of LGBTIQ+ migrants and refugees.
Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema argues that embodied cinematic representations of the queer migrant, even if at times highly ambivalent and contentious, constitute an urgent new repertoire of queer subjectivities and socialities that serve to undermine the patrolled borders of gender and sexuality, nationhood and citizenship, and refigure or queer fixed notions and universals of identity like Europe and national belonging based on the model of the family. At stake ethically and politically is the elaboration of a transborder consciousness and aesthetics that counters the homonationalist, xenophobic and homo/trans-phobic representation of the migrant to Europe figure rooted in the toxic binaries of othering (the good vs bad migrant, host vs guest, indigenous vs foreigner).
Bringing together 15 contributors working in different national film traditions and embracing multiple theoretical perspectives, this powerful and timely collection will be of major interest to both specialists and students in film and media studies, gender and queer studies, migration/mobility studies, cultural studies, and aesthetics.
James S. Williams is Professor of Modern French Literature and Film at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of (among others) The Erotics of Passage: Pleasure, Politics, and Form in the Later Work of Marguerite Duras (1997), The Cinema of Jean Cocteau (2006), Jean Cocteau (a Critical Life) (2008), Space and Being in Contemporary French Cinema (2013) and Encounters with Godard: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics (2016). He is also co-editor of The Cinema Alone: Essays on the Work of Jean-Luc Godard 19852000 (2000), Gender and French Cinema (2001), For Ever Godard: The Cinema of Jean-Luc Godard (2004), Jean-Luc Godard. Documents (2006) (catalogue of the Godard exhibition held at the Centre Pompidou, Paris) and May 68: Rethinking Frances Last Revolution (2011). His most recent monograph, Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty, was published by Bloomsbury in 2019.
Global Gender
The Global Gender series provides original research from across the humanities and social sciences, casting light on a range of topics from international authors examining the diverse and shifting issues of gender and sexuality on the world stage. Utilising a range of approaches and interventions, these texts are a lively and accessible resource for both scholars and upper level students from a wide array of fields including Gender and Womens Studies, Sociology, Politics, Communication, Cultural Studies and Literature.
Muslim Womens Rights
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Gender in the 2016 US Presidential Election
Dustin Harp
Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity
Grisel Y. Acosta
Early Motherhood in Digital Societies
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Ranjana Das
Nordic Gender Equality Policy in a Europeanisation Perspective
Edited by Knut Drum
Gender-Based Violence in Latin American and Iberian Cinemas
Edited by Rebeca Maseda Garca, Mara Jos Gmez Fuentes, and Barbara Zecchi
Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema
Edited by James S. Williams
For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/Global-Gender/book-series/RGG
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Contents
JAMES S. WILLIAMS
PART I
Trans/migration of bodies and borders
LEANNE DAWSON
C.L. QUINAN
ALFREDO MARTNEZ-EXPSITO AND SANTIAGO FOUZ-HERNNDEZ
JAMES S. WILLIAMS
LOUISE WALLENBERG
PART II
Refuge, (non-)hospitality, and (anti-)utopia
FANNI FELDMANN
MURAT AYDEMIR
NIR COHEN
DIMITRIS PAPANIKOLAOU
PART III
Space, belonging, and (anti-)sociality
ALLISON MACLEOD
JAMES S. WILLIAMS
DEREK DUNCAN
MICHAEL GOTT
JEREMI SZANIAWSKI
PART IV
Curating queer migrant cinema
Guide
Murat Aydemir is Associate Professor in literary and cultural analysis at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Images of Bliss: Ejaculation, Masculinity, Meaning (Minnesota University Press, 2007) and (co) editor of Migratory Settings (Brill, 2008) and Indiscretions: At the Intersection of Queer and Postcolonial Theory (Brill, 2011).
Nir Cohen holds a PhD in film studies from University College London and is the co-founder and co-editor of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal, and the author of Soldiers, Rebels and Drifters: Gay Representation in Israeli Cinema (both Wayne State University Press) among many other publications. He joined UK Jewish Film as Head of Programming in 2016. Before that, Nir was the curator of Jewish Book Week and taught at UCL, SOAS (University of London), and Penn State University.
Sudeep Dasgupta is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam. His recent publications focus on the aesthetics and politics of displacement in visual culture in the fields of postcolonial and globalisation studies, political philosophy, and feminist and queer theory. His publications include Sexual and Gender-based Asylum and the Queering of Global Space in Refugee Imaginaries (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), The Aesthetics of Indirection: Intermittent Adjacencies and Subaltern Presences at the Borders of Europe, Cinma et Cie (2017), and the edited volumes Whats Queer About Europe? (with Mireille Rosello) (Fordham University Press, 2014) and Constellations of the Transnational: Modernity, Culture, Critique
