Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen explores the movement, fluidity and change characterizing contemporary life, as represented on screen media, from mobile devices, to television, film, computers, video art and advertising displays.
People have never moved around more, and increasingly migration and mobility has come to shape both our understandings of ourselves, and the ways in which we interpret and mediate the world we live in. As people move, media plays a key role in shaping and reshaping identity and belonging, opening the doors to transnational and transcultural participation. Drawing on screen media case studies from around the world, this book demonstrates how screen mobilities reconfigure notions of space, place, network and border regimes. The increasing ease of consumption and production of media has allowed for an unprecedented fluidity and mobility of class, gender, sexuality, nation and transnation, individual freedoms and aspirations. Putting people at the core of the book, this book shows the many ways in which people are using screen media to create identity, participation and meaning. The rich picture built up over the many chapters of this interdisciplinary volume raise important questions about the nature of contemporary media experiences.
At a time of great change in the ways in which people move and connect with each other, this book provides an important global snapshot for researchers across the fields of media, communication and screen studies; sociology of communication; global studies and transnationalism; cultural studies; culture and identity; digital cultures; travel, tourism and place.
Introduction, Ruxandra Trandafoiu PART I Border Crossings
Chapter 1:
Mobility and Transnational Relationships in Alternative Media Discourse:
Migration Actors, Objects and Emotions on the Road, Irina Diana Mdroane and
Adina Baya
Chapter 2: Physical, affective and symbolic immobility in the
videos made by Sub-Saharan migrants at the EU external borders in Northern
Africa, Miguel Fernįndez Labayen and Irene Gutiérrez
Chapter 3: Orientalism,
Deterritorialization and the Universe of Refugees in the Brazilian
Telenovela: The Case of Orphans of a Nation, Andreza Patricia Almeida dos
Santos and Lucas Martins Néia
Chapter 4: Representing diversity during
COVID-19: minority and migrant communities in UK television news, Maria
Kyriakidou, Marina Morani and Lizzy Willmington
Chapter 5: Transnational
Queer Screen Mobilities: Quick Media Application, Home, Love and Sex Online,
Ahmet Atay PART II Transnational Encounters
Chapter 6: Global Service,
Transnational Stories: Streaming Privileged and Precarious Mobility in
Netflixs Original Films, Christopher Meir
Chapter 7: Going Viral: YouTube,
Village Life and Digital Cultures in South India, Srikanth Nayaka and V.
Vamshi Krishna Reddy
Chapter 8: Reimagining Pastoral Life in China: Rural
Microcelebrities on YouTube, Shaohua Guo
Chapter 9: Remixing Transcultural
Mobilities on Screen: Remapping Europe, A Remix Project, Lora Markova PART
III Connections and Dislocations
Chapter 10: Mobility, place and geographic
filming in South African Broadcasting Corporations Khumbulekhaya. Giving
meaning to apartheid and post-apartheid dislocation(s) of the South African
black people, Nkululeko Sibanda
Chapter 11: Traversing the Urban Sitcom: The
Narrative Trope of Transport and Urban Sociality in NBCs Must-See TV
Sitcoms, Jennifer Hessler
Chapter 12: Televised Stations in Italy: The
Visualisation of Mobility on Transportation Hubs Video Networks, Emiliano
Rossi
Chapter 13: Booktubing and Bookstagraming: The Boundary Spanning and
Disembedded Nostalgia of Shelfies, Ruxandra Trandafoiu PART IV Symbolic
Geographies
Chapter 14: Entertainment Mobilisation: Nordic Noir fans and
screen tourism, Annette Hill and Koko Kondo
Chapter 15: Mobility as a
Distinctive Practice: Van Life Lifestyle and Personal Media, Andreja Trdina
and Dejan Jontes
Chapter 16: The Augmented Reality of Tourist Places:
Strolling into Singapores Heritages, Christian S. Ritter
Chapter 17: Amateur
Film Tourism: Crafting Engaging Images of Holidays, Ryan Shand
Ruxandra Trandafoiu is Reader in Communication, Department of Creative Arts, Edge Hill University, UK.
