Description for Cultures of Exile
Hardback. Num Pages: ill. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Exile is the dominant theme of our times. It can be found in the forced migration of populations but also in the temporal, cultural and physical alienation of the individual's experiences of the postmodern world. This is a world of unstable, shifting identities dominated, and perhaps most acutely expressed by, the fluidity of the visual image. The essays in this volume examine issues such as remembering and forgetting trauma and nostalgia, time and space, social and sexual exclusion in relation to visual media and new technologies, cinema and the visual arts. The multi-facetted and interdisciplinary exploration of exile and ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Herndon, United States
ISBN
9781571815910
SKU
V9781571815910
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99-15
About Everett
Wendy Everett is Reader in French and Film. She is a graduate of the University of Wales, and carried out postgraduate research in London, and Paris, where she also lectured and worked as a freelance translator. Her principal research interests are in European cinema, and recent publications in this field include Revisiting Space (Peter Lang, 2005), European Identity in Cinema ... Read more
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