Stephanie Hemelryk Donald

There's No Place Like Home (eBook, PDF)

The Migrant Child in World Cinema

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2018 The Wizard of Oz brought many now-iconic tropes into popular culture: the yellow brick road, ruby slippers and Oz. But this book begins with Dorothy and her legacy as an archetypal touchstone in cinema for the child journeying far from home. In There's No Place Like Home, distinguished film scholar Stephanie Hemelryk Donald offers a fresh interpretation of the migrant child as a recurring figure in world cinema. Displaced or placeless children, and the idea of childhood itself, are vehicles to examine migration and cosmopolitanism in films such as Le Ballon Rouge, Little Moth and Le Havre. Surveying fictional and documentary film from the post-war years until today, the author shows how the child is a guide to themes of place, self and being in world cinema.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781838609702
• Artikelnr.: 56527408

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Hemelryk Donald is Professor of Film at Monash University Malaysia and Head of the School of Arts and Social Sciences. Since 2018 she has worked in the Justice, Arts and Migration Network (Lincoln-Sydney-Hong Kong) on artivist interventions that highlight state injustices against people, including children, on migrant journeys. This work was made possible by Natasha Davis (The Big Walk: It Takes a Decade, 2020), Hoda Afshar (Remain / There's No Place Like Home, 2019), the SYMAAG, Maison de Femmes, and Right to Remain organisers in Dunquerque, Manchester, and Sheffield, and the curators at Mansions of the Future (Lincoln 2018-2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: The Dorothy Complex
Chapter Two: The Red Balloon and Squirt's Journey: story-telling with child
migrants
Chapter Three: Once My Mother, Welcome and Le Havre: breath and the child
cosmopolitan
Chapter Four: Little Moth and The Road: precarity, immobility and inertia
Chapter Five: Landscape in the Mist
Chapter Six: The Leaving of Liverpool: Empire and religion, poetry and the
archive
Chapter Seven: Diamonds of the Night
Afterword: Where have all the children gone?
Endnotes