Migration, Dislocation and Movement on Screen

Ruxandra Trandafoiu is Professor of Media and Communications at Edge Hill University. She is the author of Diaspora Online: Identity Politics and Romanian Migrants (Berghahn Books, 2013) and The Politics of Migration and Diaspora in Eastern Europe: Media, Public Discourse and Policy (Routledge, 2022), as well as several edited collections and numerous articles exploring the relationship between media and migration.

Acknowledgements



Introduction

Ruxandra Trandafoiu



Part I: Migration



Chapter 1. Houses in Motion: The Reimagining of Time and Space as Anomalous in Representations of Mobility

Chris Campanioni



Chapter 2. Hybridity in Mission London: Challenging the Othering Discourse

Antonina Anisimovich



Chapter 3. Just Like Us: Migration and the ‘Prosthetic Western’ in Contemporary German Cinema

Owen Evans



Chapter 4. Melodrama, Realism, and Internal Migration: Cinematic Representation of Internal Migration in Turkey (1964-1990)

Ali H. Kocatürk



Part II: Dislocation



Chapter 5. No Man’s Land: Rafi Pitts’ Soy Nero Tells Us What It Means to Be Constantly Confronted with Borders

Andreas Hudelist



Chapter 6. Bollywood, Mobility and Partition Politics: Representation of Displaced Muslims in Films on Indo-Pak Partition

Sony Jalarajan Raj and Rohini Sreekumar



Chapter 7. Frames, Stereotypes and Authorial Politics: The Transits and Landings of Migrants in Italian Cinema

Gaia Peruzzi, Marco Bruno and Alessandra Massa



Chapter 8. ‘I am not here to just be en vogue’: Talking About the Politics of Dislocated Filmmaking, the Clarity of the ‘Third Eye’ and Having a Place in Your Country’s Film Memory with Egyptian-British Director Khaled El Hagar

Ruxandra Trandafoiu and Roger Shannon



Postscript



Interview Transcripts with Egyptian-British Filmmaker Khaled El Hagar

Conducted by Roger Shannon



Index