1st Edition
Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema
Introduction
1. ’Queering The Migrant: Being Beyond Borders’
James S. Williams
Part I: Trans/migration of Bodies and Borders
2. ‘The Ghostly Queer Migrant: Queering Time, Place, and Family in Contemporary German Cinema’
Leanne Dawson
3. ‘Trans-ing Gender Boundaries and National Borders: Rethinking Identity in Merzak Allouache’s Chouchou (2003) and Angelina Maccarone’s Fremde Haut/Unveiled (2005)’ Christine Quinan
4. ‘Transnational and Migrant Queer Affects in Two Basque Films’
Alfredo Martínez Expósito and Santiago Fouz Hernández
5. ‘Queering the Cinematic Field: Migrant Love and Beauty in Rural Europe’
James S. Williams
6. ‘Facing the Queer Migrant in Nordic Noir’
Louise Wallenberg
Part II: Refuge, (Non-)hospitality, and (Anti-)Utopia
7. ‘Post-communist and Queer: Eastern European Queer Migrants on Screen’
Fanni Feldmann
8. ‘Eastern Boys (2013): Hospitality, Trauma, Kinship, and the State’
Murat Aydemir
9. ‘Almost Haven: Queer Migrants’ Temporary Refuge in Israel in Paper Dolls (2006), The Bubble (2006), and Out in the Dark (2012)’
Nir Cohen
10. ‘We are all in Xenialand: Queer poetics, Citizenship, and Hospitality in Panos H. Koutras’s Xenia (2014)’
Dimitris Papanikolaou
Part III: Space, Belonging, and (Anti-)Sociality
11. ‘Queer Belongings: Recent Irish Migrant Cinema’
Allison Macloed
12. ‘From Migration To Drift: Forging Queer Migrant Spaces and Transborder Relations in Contemporary French Cinema’
James S. Williams
13. ‘Trans-regional Optics and Queer Affiliations in the work of Jonas Carpignano’
Derek Duncan
14. ‘Inside Out: Invaders, Migrants, Borders, and Queering the Belgian Family’
Michael Gott
15. ‘Integration, perforce?: (De)queering, (De)abjectifying, and Victimising the Migrant and Minority Figure in Contemporary European Cinema’
Jeremi Szaniawski
Part IV: Curating Queer Migrant Cinema
16. Interview between Sudeep Dasgupta and James S. Williams
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
Biography
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.
"Offering rich analyses of films from a broad geographical area … the collection as a whole constitutes an important intervention with crucial societal implications … they collectively demonstrate how European films featuring queer border crossers prompt crucial questions about traditional concepts of nation, identity, and belonging, thus inviting and aiding in the development of a transnational consciousness that might transcend the xenophobic, homophobic, and homonationalist currents asserting themselves with increasing force in several areas of Europe at present."
- Film Quarterly (74:04)
