Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema

James S. Williams is Professor of Modern French Literature and Film at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of (among others) The Erotics of Passage: Pleasure, Politics, and Form in the Later Work of Marguerite Duras (1997), The Cinema of Jean Cocteau (2006), Jean Cocteau (a ‘Critical Life’) (2008), Space and Being in Contemporary French Cinema (2013) and Encounters with Godard: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics (2016). He is also co-editor of The Cinema Alone: Essays on the Work of Jean-Luc Godard 1985–2000 (2000), Gender and French Cinema (2001), For Ever Godard: The Cinema of Jean-Luc Godard (2004), Jean-Luc Godard. Documents (2006) (catalogue of the Godard exhibition held at the Centre Pompidou, Paris) and May ‘68: Rethinking France’s Last Revolution (2011). His most recent monograph, Ethics and Aesthetics of African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty, was published by Bloomsbury in 2019.

Introduction ‘Queering The Migrant: Being Beyond Borders’ James S. Williams Part I: Transmigration of Bodies and Borders 2. ‘The Ghostly Queer Migrant: Queering Time, Place, and Family in Contemporary German Cinema’ 3. ‘Trans-ing Gender Boundaries and National Borders: Rethinking Identity in Merzak Allouache’s Chouchou (2003) and Angelina Maccarone’s Fremde Haut/Unveiled (2005)’ 4. ‘Transnational and Migrant Queer Affects in Two Basque Films’ 5. ‘Queering the Cinematic Field: Migrant Love and Beauty in Rural Europe’ Part II: Refuge, (Non-)hospitality, and (Anti-)Utopia 6. ‘Post-communist and Queer: Eastern European Queer Migrants on Screen’ 7. ‘Eastern Boys (2013): Hospitality, Trauma, Kinship, and the State’ 8. ‘Almost Haven: Queer Migrants’ Temporary Refuge in Israel in Paper Dolls (2006), The Bubble (2006), and Out in the Dark (2012)’ 9. ‘We are all in Xenialand: Queer poetics, Citizenship and Hospitality in Panos H. Koutras’s Xenia’ Part III: Space, Belonging, and (Anti-)Sociality 10. ‘Queer Belongings: Recent Irish Migrant Cinema’ 11. ‘From Migration To Drift: Forging Queer Migrant Spaces and Transborder Relations in Contemporary French Cinema’ 12. ‘Trans-regional Optics and Queer Affiliations in the work of Jonas Carpignano’ 13. ‘Inside Out: Invaders, Migrants, Borders, and Queering the Belgian Family’ Part IV: Absence and In/visibility: the Queer Post-Migrant 14. ‘‘‘The Real Deal’: Queering Danish National Identity’ 15. ‘Integration, perforce?: (De)queering, (De)abjectifying, and Victimising the Migrant and Minority Figure in Contemporary European Cinema’ 16. ‘Facing the Queer Migrant in Nordic Noir’ Part V: Curating Queer Migrant Cinema 17. Interview between Sudeep Dasgupta and James S. Williams