Border Cinema

MONICA HANNA is an associate professor of Chicana and Chicano studies at California State University, Fullerton. She is the coeditor of Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination.   REBECCA A. SHEEHAN is an associate professor of cinema and television arts at California State University, Fullerton.  She is the author of The Ethics of the Inbetween: The American Avant-Garde and Film-Philosophy.

Table of Contents

 

Introduction: “Moving Images: Cinematic Contestations of Global Borders in the Digital Age,” by Monica Hanna and Rebecca A. Sheehan
“Composite Aesthetics as Cultural Cartographies of Europe-in-Transition,” Marina Hassapopoulou
“Undocumation: Documentary Animation’s Unsettled Borders,” Rebecca A. Sheehan
“The Art of Witness in Lourdes Portillo’s Señorita Extraviada (2001),” Rosa-Linda Fregoso
“The Cinematic Borderlands of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel,” Monica Hanna
“Challenging European Borders: Goran Paskaljevic’s Honeymoons,” Anita Pinzi
“Remapping the Borderlands in ¿Quién diablos es Juliette?” Elena Lahr-Vivaz
“Crossing through el Hueco: The Visual Politics of Smuggling in Colombian Migration Films,” Jennifer Harford Vargas
“Toward a Transfrontera-Latinx Aesthetics: An Interview with Filmmaker and Artist Alex Rivera,” Frederick Luis Aldama
“No-man's Land: Shifting Borders and Alternating Identities in Contemporary Israeli Cinema,” Anat Zanger and Nurith Gertz
“Te Borders We Cross in Search of a Better World: On Border Crossing in Three of Amos Gitai’s Feature Films,” Yael Munk
“Filipinos at the Border: Migrant Workers in Transnational Philippine Cinema,” José B. Capino