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Journeys on Screen
Theory, Ethics, Aesthetics
Edited by Louis Bayman and Natália Pinazza
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Book Presentation:
Rethinks cinematic journeys through history, globalisation, form and genre
• Honourable Mention - BAFTSS Best Edited Collection Award 2020!
Addressing the appeal of the journey narrative from pre-cinema to new media and through documentary, fiction and the spaces between, this collection reveals the journey to be a persistent presence across cinema and in cultural modernity. Drawing on examples from different regions and cultures that traverse art and genre cinema, the book explores the journey as a motif for something wider, a metaphor for self-discovery and social transformation, and evidence of autonomy and progress (or their lack). Illuminating areas of global movement, belonging, diaspora and memory, these essays document epochal changes in human behaviour, from urbanisation, migration and war to tourism and shopping.
Contributors
• Stefano Baschiera, Queen’s University Belfast
• Louis Bayman, University of Southampton
• Carlo Cenciarelli, Cardiff University
• Maurizio Cinquegrani, University of Kent
• Clelia Clini, Loughborough University
• Anna Cooper, University of Arizona
• Tiago de Luca, University of Warwick
• Alan Freeman, University of Kent
• Chris Fujiwara, film critic and programmer
• Hajnal Király, Eötvös Lóránd University of Budapest
• Lucy Mazdon, University of Southampton
• Ewa Mazierska, University of Central Lancashire
• Eva Näripea, Tallinn University
• Michael Pigott, University of Warwick
• Natalia Pinazza, University of Exeter
• Lázsló Strausz, Eötvös Lóránd University of Budapest
About the authors:
Louis Bayman is a lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Southampton. He holds a PhD from King’s College, London and has published various articles on popular genres especially in relation to Italian cinema, serial killer cinema, film aesthetics and retro and nostalgia. He is author of the monograph The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama (2014) and co-editor of the collection Popular Italian Cinema.
Natália Pinazza is a lecturer in Portuguese Studies at the University of Exeter. She holds a PhD and MA from University of Bath and a BA from University of São Paulo. She undertook a UNESCO fellowship at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Pinazza’s previous publications include New Approaches to Lusophone Culture, Journeys in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema: Road Films in a Global Era, World Cinema Directory: Brazil, and World Film Locations: São Paulo. She has published in journals such as the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and Alphaville: Journal of Media and Film Studies.
Press Reviews:
From the interplanetary travel and alien encounters of science fiction films to the exploratory drive and spiritual growth associated with road movies, journeys both actual and metaphorical have been central to the motion picture medium since its origins as a technological curiosity over a century ago. The contributors to this appropriately globe-trotting, border-crossing collection — with chapters focusing on migrant narratives in Romanian cinema, diasporic themes in Indian filmmaking, and everything in-between — make the case that the story of the movies is and has always been the story of moving. In an age of mass deportations and international travel bans, Journeys on Screen reminds us of the need for cross-cultural connectedness and cosmopolitan understanding of other people and places, and is sure to inspire a restorative wanderlust in its readers.– David Scott Diffrient, Colorado State University
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
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