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title clippings file		CARAVANS FOR REFUGEES : (AT, Jim Shomos, 2013 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: CARAVANS FOR REFUGEES (AT, Jim Shomos, 2013) More info
subject clippings file		FESTIVALS. AUSTRALIA. REFUGEES SHORT FILM Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: FESTIVALS. AUSTRALIA. REFUGEES SHORT FILM More info
book		In permanent crisis : ethnicity in contemporary European media and cinema / Ipek A. Celik Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. Call No: 744.6(4) CEL Author: Celik, Ipek A. Source: US Place: Ann Arbor Publisher: University of Michigan Press PubDate: 2015 PhysDes: x, 192 pages ; 24 cm Subject: REFUGEES; RACIAL ISSUES IN FILMS; IMMIGRATION IN FILMS AND TELEVISION; CHILDREN OF MEN (JA/UK/US, Alfonso Cuaron, 2006); HEAD-ON [GEGEN DIE WAND] (GG, Fatih Akin, 2004); CACHE (FR/AU/GG/IT, Michael Haneke, 2005); HOSTAGE [OMIROS] (AA/GR, Constantine Giannaris, 2005) Summary: "Refugees, migrants, and minorities of migrant origin frequently apprear in European mainstream news in emergency situations: victims of human trafficking, suspects of terrorism, "bogus" asylum seekers. Through analysis of work by established filmmakers Michael Haneke, Faith Akin, and Alfonso Cuaron, 'In Permanent Crisis' contemplates the way mess media depictions become invoked by film to frame ethnic and racial Otherness is Europe as adornments of catastrophe." - taken from back cover Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-186) and index ISBN: 9780472052721 Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema Contents: Introduction: Mapping the representation of ethnicity in Europe -- Refugees and humanitarianism in a dystopic Europe: Alfonso Cuaro´n's Children of men -- The thrill of French colonial history: Michael Haneke's Hidden -- Balkan borders and transgressions: Constantinos Giannaris's Hostage -- Ethnicity and melodrama in the German media and Fatih Akin's Head-on -- Epilogue: The overarcing trope of victimhood More info
book		Making worlds : Affect and collectivity in contemporary European cinema / Claudia Breger New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Call No: 744(4) BRE Author: Breger, Claudia Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Columbia University Press PubDate: 2020 PhysDes: 8 unumbered pages, 336 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Subject: WEISSE BAND, DAS - EINE DEUTSCHE KINDERGESCHICHTE (AU/G/FR/IT, Michael Haneke, 2009); BIUTIFUL (MX/SP, Alejandro Inarritu, 2010); EDGE OF HEAVEN, THE (G/TU/IT, Fatih Akin, 2007); JODAEIYA NADER AZ SIMIN (IR, Asghar Farhadi, 2011); HAVRE, LE (FI/FR/GG, Aki Kaurismäki, 2011); MIES VAILLA MENNEISYYTTA (FI/GG/FR, Aki Kaurismaki, 2002); OTHER SIDE OF HOPE, THE [TOIVON TUOLLA PUOLEN] (GG/FI, Aki Kaurismäki , 2017); VIE DE BOHEME, LA (FI/FR, Aki Kaurismaki, 1992); AESTHETICS; AUDIENCES; BRECHT, BERTHOLD; DELEUZE, GILLES; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; IMMIGRATION IN FILMS AND TELEVISION; REFUGEES Summary: The twenty-first century has witnessed a resurgence of economic inequality, racial exclusion, and political hatred, causing questions of collective identity and belonging to assume new urgency. In Making Worlds, Claudia Breger argues that contemporary European cinema provides ways of thinking about and feeling collectivity that can challenge these political trends. Breger offers nuanced readings of major contemporary films such as Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful, Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven, Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation, and Aki Kaurismäki’s refugee trilogy, as well as works by Jean-Luc Godard and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Through a new model of cinematic worldmaking, Breger examines the ways in which these works produce unexpected and destabilizing affects that invite viewers to imagine new connections among individuals or groups. These films and their depictions of refugees, immigrants, and communities do not simply counter dominant political imaginaries of hate and fear with calls for empathy or solidarity. Instead, they produce layered sensibilities that offer the potential for greater openness to others’ present, past, and future claims. Drawing on the work of Latour, Deleuze, and Rancière, Breger engages questions of genre and realism along with the legacies of cinematic modernism. Offering a rich account of contemporary film, Making Worlds theorizes the cinematic creation of imaginative spaces in order to find new ways of responding to political hatred -- publisher's website Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 293-324) and index. ISBN: 9780231194198 Contents: Affects in Configuration: Controversy and Conviviality in Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven and Asghar Farhadi's A Separation -- Critical Intensity: Jean-Luc Godard's and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Defamiliarized Worldmaking Practices -- Genre. Or, Simple Stories? Affective Incisions in Akin's The Cut and Ari Kaurisma¨ki's Refugee Trilogy -- Tenderly Cruel Realisms: Objectfull Assembly and the Horizon of a Shared World -- Epilogue: Reconfiguring Resistance. More info
Online resource book		Performing noncitizenship : asylum seekers in Australian theatre, film and activism / Emma Cox London: Anthem Press, 2015. Available at ProQuest (RMIT login required) Call No: 737.6(94) COX Author: Cox, Emma Edition: 2015 Place: London Publisher: Anthem Press PubDate: 2015 PhysDes: 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Subject: REFUGEES; HOPE (AT, Steve Thomas, 2008); MOLLY AND MOBARAK (AT, Tom Zubrycki, 2003); PACIFIC SOLUTION (AT/NZ, James Frankham, 2005) Summary: This exacting study makes the case that a diverse range of theatre, film and activism engaged in the portrayal or participation of asylum seekers and refugees since 2001 has been informed by and contributed to the consolidation of ‘irregular’ noncitizenship as a cornerstone idea in contemporary Australian political and social life. This idea has been reified as a direct consequence of the asylum seeker–related public discourse that has been prominent in twenty-first century Australia, to the extent that it has become impossible to imagine what Australia means without it. ‘Performing Noncitizenship’ is the first book-length study of its kind to focus on Australia’s urgent and fraught asylum politics, and its implications extend beyond one country’s problems. To date, there has been little attention paid to theatre and performance’s implicatedness in how irregular noncitizenship has been taken up in Western neoliberal democracies as a core diagnosis for the ills of a precarious social and economic status quo. This study is unique among studies of asylum seeker and refugee representation in theatre, film and activism in its interest in the ways representations of asylum seekers are informed by and inform identity politics among citizens. The book’s purpose is to identify and illuminate the increasing leverage of noncitizenship as a marker of twenty-first century human illegitimacy. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9781783084012 Contents: Introduction: Framing Noncitizenship -- 1. The Politics of Innocence in Theatres of Reality -- 2. Domestic Comedy and Theatrical Heterotopias -- 3. Territories of Contact in Documentary Film -- 4. The Pain of Others: Performance, Protest and Instrumental Self-Injury -- 5. Welcome to Country? Aboriginal Activism and Ontologies of Sovereignty -- Conclusion: A Global Politics of Noncitizenship -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index More info
book		Screening strangers : migration and diaspora in contemporary European cinema / Yosefa Loshitzky Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, c2010. Call No: 744.9[325.1](4) LOS Author: Loshitzky, Yosefa Source: US Place: Bloomington IN Publisher: Indiana University Press PubDate: c2010 PhysDes: 214 p. ; 23 cm Series: New directions in national cinemas Subject: CULTURAL IMPERIALISM; EUROPEAN CINEMA; IMMIGRATION IN FILMS AND TELEVISION; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; REFUGEES; WINTERBOTTOM, MICHAEL; BESIEGED (IT, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1998); CODE 46 (UK/US, Michael Winterbottom, 2003); DIRTY PRETTY THINGS (UK, Stephen Frears, 2002); HAINE, LA [HATE] (FR, Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995); IN THIS WORLD (UK, Michael Winterbottom, 2002); ROAD TO GUANTANAMO, THE (UK, Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, 2006) Summary: "Yosefa Loshitzky challenges the utopian notion of a post-national "New Europe" by focusing on the waves of migrants and refugees that some view as a potential threat to European identity, a concern heightened by the rhetoric of the war on terror, the London Underground bombings, and the riots in Paris's banliues. Opening a cinematic window onto this struggle, Loshitzky determines patterns in the representation and negotiation of European identity in several European films from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, including Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged, Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things, Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine, and Michael Winterbottom's In This World, Code 46, and The Road to Guantanamo." - BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes notes and index ISBN: 9780253221827 More info

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