1st Edition

Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen

Edited By Ruxandra Trandafoiu Copyright 2022
238 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen explores the movement, fluidity and change characterizing contemporary life, as represented on screen media, from mobile devices, to television, film, computers, video art and advertising displays. People have never moved around more, and increasingly migration and mobility has come to shape both our understandings of ourselves, and the ways in which... Read more

Introduction, Ruxandra Trandafoiu  PART I – Border Crossings  Chapter 1: Mobility and Transnational Relationships in Alternative Media Discourse: Migration Actors, Objects and Emotions on the Road, Irina Diana Mădroane and Adina Baya  Chapter 2: Physical, affective and symbolic immobility in the videos made by Sub-Saharan migrants at the EU external borders in Northern Africa, Miguel Fernández Labayen and Irene Gutiérrez  Chapter 3: Orientalism, Deterritorialization and the Universe of Refugees in the Brazilian Telenovela: The Case of Orphans of a Nation, Andreza Patricia Almeida dos Santos and Lucas Martins Néia  Chapter 4: Representing diversity during COVID-19: minority and migrant communities in UK television news, Maria Kyriakidou, Marina Morani and Lizzy Willmington   Chapter 5: Transnational Queer Screen Mobilities: Quick Media Application, Home, Love and Sex Online, Ahmet Atay  PART II – Transnational Encounters  Chapter 6: Global Service, Transnational Stories: Streaming Privileged and Precarious Mobility in Netflix’s Original Films, Christopher Meir  Chapter 7: Going Viral: YouTube, Village Life and Digital Cultures in South India, Srikanth Nayaka and V. Vamshi Krishna Reddy   Chapter 8: Reimagining Pastoral Life in China: Rural Microcelebrities on YouTube, Shaohua Guo  Chapter 9: Remixing Transcultural Mobilities on Screen: Remapping Europe, A Remix Project, Lora Markova  PART III – Connections and Dislocations  Chapter 10: Mobility, place and geographic filming in South African Broadcasting Corporation’s Khumbulekhaya. Giving meaning to apartheid and post-apartheid dislocation(s) of the South African black people, Nkululeko Sibanda  Chapter 11: Traversing the Urban Sitcom: The Narrative Trope of Transport and Urban Sociality in NBC’s ‘Must-See TV’ Sitcoms, Jennifer Hessler  Chapter 12: Televised Stations in Italy: The Visualisation of Mobility on Transportation Hubs Video Networks, Emiliano Rossi  Chapter 13: Booktubing and Bookstagraming: The Boundary Spanning and Disembedded Nostalgia of Shelfies, Ruxandra Trandafoiu   PART IV – Symbolic Geographies  Chapter 14: Entertainment Mobilisation: Nordic Noir fans and screen tourism, Annette Hill and Koko Kondo  Chapter 15: Mobility as a Distinctive Practice: Van Life Lifestyle and Personal Media, Andreja Trdina and Dejan Jontes  Chapter 16: The Augmented Reality of Tourist Places: Strolling into Singapore’s Heritages, Christian S. Ritter  Chapter 17: Amateur Film Tourism: Crafting Engaging Images of Holidays, Ryan Shand

Biography

Ruxandra Trandafoiu is Reader in Communication, Department of Creative Arts, Edge Hill University, UK.