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Subjects:

Emigration and immigration in motion pictures.
Return migration in motion pictures.
Homeland in motion pictures.
Nostalgia in motion pictures.

Contents:

Introduction / Rebecca Prime
Transatlantic modes of production. Come back to Erin: themes of exile and return in the "O' Kalem" films / Peter Flynn
Alexander Korda and Peter Lorre: Central European exile and the illusion of return / Catherine Portuges
From blacklists to black films: the Hollywood radicals return home / Rebecca Prime
Nostalgic visions, imagined homelands. Between longing and belonging: diasporic return in contemporary South Korean cinema / We Jung Yi
Ages of Russian nostalgia: "Nostalgia", "Window to Paris", and "Brother 2" / Milla Federova
Beyond return in Turkish diasporic cinema / Silvia Kratzer
Exilic subjectivity and the politics of return. Staying home: Cuban exile film from within / Mariana Johnson
Chilean exile cinema and its homecoming documentaries / Jose Miguel Palacios
Burning straw men: the 1979 revolution and Bahman Farmanara's stubborn cosmopolitanism / Matthew Holtmeier
Re-visioning the past. Returning to rubble: Fritz Kortner's "The last illusion" / Martina Moeller
Healing journeys: return as therapy in "Walk on water" / Ido Ramati
The roving gaze. Narratives of return in the films of Ousmane Sembene and Djibril Diop / Malini Guha
Sleeping with strangers: queering home and identity in "I don't want to sleep alone" / Kai-man Chang
A Moroccan homecoming: the fabulation of family and home in Izza Ginini's "Retrouver oulad moumen" / Stefanie Van de Peer
Zero degrees of separation: post-exilic return in Denis Villeneuve's "Incendies" / Claudia Kotte
Afterword / Dina Iordanova.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Contributor:

Prime, Rebecca, 1974- editor.

ISBN:

9781441124470
1441124470

OCLC:

895114364