Image from Google Jackets

There's no place like home : the migrant child in world cinema / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: Computer fileComputer fileLondon, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xii, 275 pages) : illustrationsISBN:
  • 9781350989443
Other title:
  • Migrant child in world cinema
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/6526912 23
Online resources: Summary: This book offers a fresh interpretation of the migrant child as a recurring figure in world cinema. Displaced or placeless children, and the idea of childhood itself, are vehicles to examine migration and cosmopolitanism in films such as Le Ballon Rouge, Sammy Going South and Le Havre. Surveying fictional and documentary film from the post-war years until today, the author shows how the child is a guide to themes of place, self and being in world cinema.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Home library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
e-Book e-Book S. R. Ranganathan Learning Hub Online 791.43/6526912 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available EB0939
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-260), filmography (pages 261-262) and index.

This book offers a fresh interpretation of the migrant child as a recurring figure in world cinema. Displaced or placeless children, and the idea of childhood itself, are vehicles to examine migration and cosmopolitanism in films such as Le Ballon Rouge, Sammy Going South and Le Havre. Surveying fictional and documentary film from the post-war years until today, the author shows how the child is a guide to themes of place, self and being in world cinema.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.