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Analysing recent documentary films dealing with undocumented migration at the Schengen Area's fringes and against the backdrop of what has been termed the `European refugee crisis', Jan Kühnemund investigates the interface between migration discourses and image discourses. As an analytical framework, he conceptualises `Borderland Schengen' as a visual-political transnational space emerging from the interplay of migration movements and border policies. Putting the spaces and iconologies of `illegal' migration under scrutiny and aiming at establishing their protagonists as subjects, Kühnemund in this regard reads the films as attempts at discursive participation as an aesthetic political practice.
Price: $45.00
Pages: 292
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Image
Publication Date:
26 June 2018
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837642087
Format: Paperback
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Jan Kühnemund (Dr.), born in 1975, completed his PhD at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). He also holds an MA degree in Political Science, Visual Media, and English. He works at Europa-Universität Flensburg. From 2010 to 2017, he was part of the team coordinating the African-European Erasmus Mundus Course "European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations" at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. Occasionally he also works as a freelance journalist.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
1. Introduction 7
2. Coordinates 21
3. The Transnational Social Space of "Borderland Schengen" 61
4. The Visuality and Mediality of Documentary Film 101
5. Representational and Performative Practices 145
6. Attempts of Visibility and Recognition 179
7. Transnational Social Spaces - Transitional Social Spaces 217
8. Conclusion: Borderland Counter-Topographies 251
Filmography 265
Bibliography 267