Mobility and Migration in Film and Moving Image Art

<p><em>Mobility and Migration in Film and Moving Image Art</em> explores cinematic and artistic representations of migration and mobility in Europe from the 1990s to today. Drawing on theories of migrant and diasporic cinema moving-image art and mobility studies Bayraktar provides historically situated close readings of films videos and cinematic installations that concern migratory networks and infrastructures across Europe the Middle East and Africa. Probing the notion of Europe as a coherent entity and a borderless space this interdisciplinary study investigates the ways in which European ideals of mobility and fluidity are deeply enmeshed with forced migration illegalization and xenophobia. With a specific focus on distinct forms of mobility such as labor migration postcolonial migration tourism and refugee mobilities Bayraktar studies the new counter-hegemonic imaginations invoked by the work of filmmakers such as Ay?e Polat Fatih Akin Michael Haneke and Tony Gatlif as well as video essays and installations of artists such as Kutlu? Ataman Ursula Biemann Ergin Çavu?o?lu Maria Iorio and Raphaël Cuomo. Challenging aesthetic as well as national cultural and political boundaries the works central to this book envision Europe as a diverse inclusive and unfixed continent that is reimagined from many elsewheres well beyond its borders. </p>