European Cinema in Motion: Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary Europe

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Locating Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe....Pages 12-49
Migration and Cinematic Process in Post-Cold War Europe....Pages 50-75
State and Other Funding for Migrant, Diasporic and World Cinemas in Europe....Pages 76-95
Nostalgic Journeys in Post-Soviet Cinema: Towards a Lost Home?....Pages 96-113
Transculturation in German and Spanish Migrant and Diasporic Cinema: On Constrained Spaces and Minor Intimacies in Princesses and A Little Bit of Freedom ....Pages 114-131
The Dark Side of Hybridity: Contemporary Black and Asian British Cinema....Pages 132-151
Body Matters: Immigrants in Recent Spanish, Italian and Greek Cinemas....Pages 152-174
Gendering Diaspora: The Work of Diasporic Women Film-Makers in Western Europe....Pages 175-195
Queering the Diaspora....Pages 196-214
Sound Bridges: Transnational Mobility as Ironic Melodrama....Pages 215-234
Coming of Age in ‘the Hood’: The Diasporic Youth Film and Questions of Genre....Pages 235-255
Migration, Diaspora and Metacinematic Reflection....Pages 256-274
Future Imperfect: Some Onward Perspectives on Migrant and Diasporic Film Practice....Pages 275-292
Back Matter....Pages 293-321