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Title Films with legs : crossing borders with foreign language films / edited by Rosemary A. Peters and Véronique Maisier
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 232 pages) : illustrations
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; VISUAL / VIRTUAL MEMORY SITES; SOUTHERN CORRESPONDENCES AND TRANSNATIONALITY IN RECENT ARGENTINE FILM; HISTORY ON TRIAL IN CHRISTIAN LARA'S SUCRE AMER; OPEN CITY AND IRAQ; PART II; WHAT WALL?WATCHING LEANDER HAUßMANN'S SONNENALLEE AND HERR LEHMANN SIDE BY SIDE; MORE INDIAN; ISRAELI CINEMA IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT; NATIONAL CINEMA STUDIES RECONSIDERED; PART III; SPACES OF EXILE AND YOUTH DELINQUENCY IN RECENT SPANISH CINEMA; VALENTÍN; CROSSING BORDERS OF HETERONORMATIVITY IN MEXICAN CINEMA
ABLE LANGUAGE, DISABLED NARRATIVEPART IV; STANLEY KUBRICK'S EYES WIDE SHUT; DIE NIBELUNGEN REVISITED; FILMIC SPRINGBOARDS; CONCLUSION; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
Summary Films With Legs: Crossing Borders with Foreign-Language Films addresses the ways in which international cinematic traditions both erect borders and blur them or tear them down. Each chapter of this book examines both real and perceived borders, their representation on the screen and the ways in which they manifest in filmic texts that can also be cultural documents and political statements. The fifteen articles included here discuss films made by twenty-four directors, with dialogue in nine f ..
Notes Book features research presented in the context of the Foreign Lanaguage Film Conference (FLFC) over the course of three years, 2007, 2008, and 2009
Bibliography Includees bibliographies and filmographies as well as index
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Subject Foreign language films -- Congresses
Foreign films -- Congresses
Films, cinema.
Film theory & criticism.
Film: styles & genres.
ART -- Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Guides & Reviews.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
Foreign films
Foreign language films
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Peters, Rosemary A
Maisier, Véronique
ISBN 1443832626
9781443832625
128343587X
9781283435871