Migrant and Diasporic Cinema - News
BABYLON Event at the 55th BFI London Film Festival
Dr. Gareth Jones, founder of BABYLON International and Managing Director of Scenario Films, is hosting a special event at this year's BFI London Film Festival.
Date: Sunday, 16 October
Venue: The Gallery, BFI Southbank
Time: 11 a.m.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 25 Sep 2011 •
Book Review Copies for European Cinema in Motion
If you are interested in reviewing the anthology European Cinema in Motion: Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary Europe, published by Palgrave McMillan in August 2010 in the UK and one month later in the US, please contact the book review editors of one of the following journals, who are holding review copies:
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 26 Mar 2011 •
Dr Daniela Berghahn awarded AHRC Fellowship
Daniela Berghahn, who was the project leader of the Migrant and Diasporic Cinema Network between 2006 and 2008, has been awarded a Research Fellowship by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for her new project on 'The Diasporic Family in Cinema'. Her research will analyse the representation of families with a migratory background in the most established diasporic European film cultures - Black and Asian British, Maghrebi French and Turkish German cinema.
For more information about this new project, associated conferences and resources please refer to the project website: Farflungfamilies.net
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 10 Nov 2010 •
Book European Cinema in Motion published in August 2010
We are delighted to announce the publication of the anthology European Cinema in Motion: Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary Europe, eds. Daniela Berghahn and Claudia Sternberg, which has just been published by Palgrave. The book can be ordered directly from Palgrave or at Amazon.co.uk.
If you would like to obtain a review copy of the book, please contact the book review editors of one of the following journals, which will be able to send you a review copy after 20 August.
Screen
New Cinemas
Transnational Cinemas
Journal of Contemporary European Studies
Journal of British Cinema and Television
Journal of Intercultural Studies
Modern Language Review
Media Culture and Society
Modern and Contemporary France
MEDIENwissenschaft (based in Germany)
North American journals will receive review copies slightly later. We will post a list of North American journals from which you can obtain review copies in September.
If you would like to write a review for another publication, please contact: Daniela.berghahn@rhul.ac.uk or C.Sternberg@leeds.ac.uk and we will try to make the necessary arrangements.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 12 Jul 2010 •
New books on diasporic film cultures by Network member Professor Dina Iordanova
Professor Dina Iordanova has recently published two books which engage with the representation of diasporic identities and with the creation of transnational 'imagined communities' at diaspora-linked film festivals. The Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined Communities (eds. Dina Iordanova and Ruby Cheung) and Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe (William Brown, Dina Iordanov and Leshu Torchin) are both available via St. Andrews Film Studies.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 04 Mar 2010 •
Heimat in the age of transnational migration
Panel 'Unheimliche Sehnsucht nach Heimat' at WDR Heimat Symposium - October 2009
Dr Daniela Berghahn, leader of the Migrant and Diasporic Cinema Network, and Network participant Professor Carrie Tarr, were invited by the WDR (West German Broadcasting Corporation) to explore the concept of Heimat at a public symposium, held at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne’s equivalent of the Tate Modern, on 16 and 17 October 2009. Daniela Berghahn will also feature in a television programme entitled ‘Plötzlich so viel Heimat’ (Suddenly so much Heimat), broadcast by the WDR during the ‘Long Night of the Heimatfilm’ on 31 October 2009. She will be discussing the evolution of the Heimatfilm, a quintessentially German film genre, and its recent revival in the age of transnational migration.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 01 Nov 2009 •
Special issue of New Cinemas on ‘Turkish-German Dialogues on Screen’
The special issue of New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film (7:1) was guest-edited by Network Leader Daniela Berghahn and was published in August 2009. Its title refers to the multiple dialogues recorded in this issue. These include dialogues between Turkish and Turkish-German filmmakers and the various cross-cultural exchanges that inform their work on the level of creation, production, distribution and reception, as well as dialogues between film scholars from different national and cultural backgrounds - Turkish, German, British and American - all of whom have extensively published on the cinemas under consideration. It also pertains to the 'dialogic tendencies', theorized by Mikhail Bakhtin and Kobena Mercer, in Turkish-German film.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 28 Sep 2009 •
Network participant Gareth Jones’s film Desire at the Cambridge Film Festival
Following the World Première of DESIRE at the Sarajevo Film Festival last month, Scenario Film is pleased to announce the film's UK premiere in the official selection of the 29th Cambridge Film Festival with the participation of principal cast, director (Gareth Jones) and producer.
Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 08 Sep 2009 •