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.
| ISBN: | 9783837642087 |
| Publication date: | 8th December 2021 |
| Author: | Jan Kühnemund |
| Publisher: | Transcript an imprint of transcript |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 292 pages |
| Series: | Image |
| Genres: |
Media studies The arts: general topics Theory of art Digital, video and new media arts Film history, theory or criticism History and Archaeology National liberation and independence Philosophy: aesthetics Ethics and moral philosophy Migration, immigration and emigration |