Border Cinema: Reimagining Identity Through Aesthetics

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The rise of digital media and globalization’s intensification since the 1990s have significantly refigured global cinema’s form and content. The coincidence of digitalization and globalization has produced what this book helps to define and describe as a flourishing border cinema whose aesthetics reflect, construct, intervene in, denature, and reconfigure geopolitical borders. This collection demonstrates how border cinema resists contemporary border fortification processes, showing how cinematic media have functioned technologically and aesthetically to engender contemporary shifts in national and individual identities while proposing alternative conceptions of these identities to those promulgated by the often restrictive current political rhetoric and ideologies that represent a backlash to globalization. Cover Title Page Copyright Contents 1. Introduction—Moving Images: Contesting Global Borders in the Digital Age 2. Composite Aesthetics as Cultural Cartographies of Europe in Transition 3. Undocumation: Documentary Animation’s Unsettled Borders 4. The Art of Witness in Lourdes Portillo’s Señorita extraviada 5. The Cinematic Borderlands of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel 6. Challenging European Borders: Goran Paskaljevic’s Honeymoons 7. Remapping the Borderlands in ¿Quién diablos es Juliette? 8. Crossing through el Hueco: The Visual Politics of Smuggling in Colombian Migration Films 9. Toward a Transfrontera-Latinx Aesthetics: An Interview with Filmmaker and Artist Alex Rivera 10. No-Man’s-Land: Shifting Borders and Alternating Identities in Contemporary Israeli Cinema 11. The Borders We Cross in Search of a Better World: On Border Crossing in Three of Amos Gitai’s Feature Films 12. Filipinos at the Border: Migrant Workers in Transnational Philippine Cinema Acknowledgments Bibliography Filmography and Videography Notes on Contributors Index