Kinotopias

Film, Place and Belonging in a Bordered World

AvKevin Smets,Lennart Soberon

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien Political Cinemas

1 172 kr

Kommande

Beskrivning

Combining original research with insights from social sciences, philosophy and film theory, it argues that film can effectively capture both material and socio-cultural dimensions of borders and their underlying tensions. From popular cinema using border surveillance optics to militant and amateur filmmaking by borderlanders, Kinotopias: Film, Place and Belonging in a Bordered World traces diverging strategies that use film to enforce or overcome borders, demonstrating how film can become a political instrument for belonging. Introducing the concept of debordering film, the book urges a rethinking of how film is made, studied and understood, foregrounding neglected forms, voices and spatial experiences. Through an ambitious conceptual framework stemming from research on highly politicised borders in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, Kinotopias makes a strong case for the social and political power of film as a tool of resistance and reimagination.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-31
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Political Cinemas
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399536653

Utforska kategorier

Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Kevin Smets is Associate Professor in Media and Culture at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), where he co-directs the research group ECHO: Media, Culture & Politics. He has previously published Film: Een geschiedenis (2022) and co-edited the SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration (2020). Lennart Soberon is a postdoctoral researcher at the Reel Borders project at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and artistic coordinator of KASKcinema (Ghent). His film Dragon’s Teeth (2024) won the Best Short Documentary Award at Galway Film Fleadh. He is the co-founder of cinephile platform Kinoautomat. Irene Gutiérrez-Torres is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). Her artistic and academic work critically engages with migration and border dynamics through participatory filmmaking. Silvia Almenara-Niebla is a Ramón y Cajal senior research fellow at the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) and an affiliated researcher at ECHO: Media, Culture & Politics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). She has published in various international journals and received research awards on these topics.

Recensioner i media

Kinotopias offers a much-needed cultural perspective into a world of ever-expanding borders. Its rigorous, but also creative and perceptive approach to borderlands through filmmaking, ethnography and participatory cinema practices reveals them as sites of power but also of people and culture. A must read for anyone interested in migration, belonging and the cultural politics of film.

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Kinotopias and border cinemas1. Kinotopias and the social spatiality of film2. The border as black box: Documentary cinema and the forensic geographies of displacementPart II: Border cultures and representations3. Phantom pains: Brexit-era border cinema and the anxiety of the unseen4. Cinematic autonomy: Contested space and film in North and East Syria (Rojava)Part III: Methodologies and interventions5. Emotions and borders: Feminist geopolitics and intimate film experiences6. Vernacular border cinema: Participatory filmmaking as placemakingAfterword: Debordering filmAppendixIndex