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European Cinema in Motion

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Abstract

The increased visibility of migrant groups and individuals is currently perhaps the most striking feature common to Spanish, Italian and Greek cinemas. This development arose in the early 1990s and has since led to a sizeable body of so-called immigrant films in each country. Shared agendas in these films, as well as in journalistic and academic debates, legitimate the kind of wide-angle focus adopted here, particularly at a time when transnational dynamics demand more than ever a discussion of cinema – and, perhaps especially, European cinema – liberated from the straitjacket of national boundaries.

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  1. Media Arts Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

    Daniela Berghahn (Reader in Film Studies) (Reader in Film Studies)

  2. University of Leeds, UK

    Claudia Sternberg (Lecturer in Cultural Studies) (Lecturer in Cultural Studies)

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Santaolalla, I. (2010). Body Matters: Immigrants in Recent Spanish, Italian and Greek Cinemas. In: Berghahn, D., Sternberg, C. (eds) European Cinema in Motion. Palgrave European Film and Media Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230295070_8

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