Migrants' Perspectives, Migrants in Perspective (Paperback)

Paperback. Presenting the depiction of migration through a variety of cinematic outlets, this volume explores films depiction of human displacement in different geographic circumstances and probes the reasons why cinema so frequently evokes a stereotype of in-transit people. Techniques of affect and distance are revealed in the contributors close film studies of wide-ranging matter which include works by the Dardenne brothers, transnational video artists Ghazel and Bouchra Khalili, and studies of Syrian films at Western festivals. Migrants Perspective, Migrants in Perspective: World Cinema deciphers the semiotics of migration and its representation in cinema, exploring both the complications of shooting a migrant subject, and the challenges of including the migrants point of view. Analyses how migrants are portrayed in film from different viewpoints. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.