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 displacement whether geographical, temporal, corporeal or performative provides an important analysis of a significant and fascinating aspect of contemporary culture.
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1. Exile and Displacement in the Cinema of Tony Gatlif: Les Princes (1983) and Gadjo dilo (1998) |
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2. Leaving Home: Exile and Displacement in Contemporary European Cinema |
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3. The Exile of Remembering: Movement and Memory in Chris Marker's Sans Soleil |
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4. 'Island of Tears': Georges Perec, Ellis Island and the Exile's Lost Past |
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5. Forced Migration and Involuntary Memory: the Work of Arnold Daghani |
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6. Chantal Akerman: a Struggle with Exile |
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7. Memory and Exile in the Bill Douglas Trilogy |
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9. The Transgendered Individual as Exilic Travelling Subject |
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10. Andy Warhol and the Strategic Exile of the Self |
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11. Exiles of Normality: Photography and the Representation of Diseased Bodies |
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| Notes on Contributors |
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| Select Bibliography |
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| Select Filmography |
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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 (Intellect, 2005), Terence Davies (Manchester University Press, 2004) and The Seeing Century: Film, Vision, and Identity (Rodopi, 2000), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. She regularly lectures and gives papers in Europe and the US.
