Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen

✍ Scribed by Ruxandra Trandafoiu (editor)

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Leaves: 239
Series: Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book 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. It demonstrates how screen mobilities reconfigure notions of space, place, network and border regimes.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Border crossings
1 Mobility and transnational relationships in alternative media discourse: migration actors, objects and emotions on the road
2 Physical, affective and symbolic immobility in the videos made by Sub-Saharan migrants at the EU external borders in Northern Africa
3 Orientalism, deterritorialization and the universe of refugees in the Brazilian Telenovela: the case of Orphans of a Nation
4 Representing diversity during COVID-19: minority and migrant communities in UK television news
5 Transnational queer screen mobilities: quick media application, home, love, and sex online
Part II Transnational encounters
6 Global service, transnational stories: streaming privileged and precarious mobility in Netflix’s original films
7 Going Viral: YouTube, Village Life and Digital Cultures in South India
8 Reimagining pastoral life in China: rural microcelebrities on YouTube
9 Remixing transcultural mobilities on screen: Remapping Europe, a Remix Project (2013)
Part III Connections and dislocations
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
11 Traversing the Urban Sitcom: the Narrative Trope of Transport and Urban Sociality in NBC’s ‘Must-See TV’ Sitcoms
12 Televised stations in Italy: the visualisation of mobility on transportation hubs video networks
13 Booktubing and bookstagramming: the boundary spanning and disembedded nostalgia of shelfies
Part IV Symbolic geographies
14 Entertainment mobilisation: Nordic noir fans and screen tourism
15 Mobility as a distinctive practice: Van life lifestyle and personal media
16 The augmented reality of tourist places: strolling into Singapore’s heritages
17 Amateur film tourism: crafting engaging images of holidays
Index

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