Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Race, Mobile Masculinities, and Class

Chapter 2: Female Transnational Migrations and Diasporas

Chapter 3: Human Trafficking and the Global Sex Slave Trade

Chapter 4: Queer Immigration and Diasporas: Performative Identities, Cross-Dressing Displacement/Assimilation

Chapter 5: The European Family in the Face of Otherness: Family Metaphors and the Redemption of White Guilt

Chapter 6: Border-Crossing Road Movies: Inverted Odysseys and Roads to Dystopia

Chapter 7: Identities In-Between in Diasporic Cinema

About the Author

Isolina Ballesteros is associate professor in the department of modern languages and comparative literature and the film studies program of Baruch College (CUNY).

Reviews

"This is a very timely and necessary book likely to attract considerable interest from a wide range of disciplines beyond Film and European Studies, and deservedly so. Throughout the seven chapters of this extremely engaging and clearly structured monograph, Ballesteros convincingly argues that immigration cinema challenges traditional notions of film genre and auteurism, as well as certain aesthetic conventions that Film Studies as a discipline has taken for granted until now. Through careful consideration of a plethora of admirably well-picked case studies from across Europe (mostly from the 1990s and 2000s), the book demonstrates how immigration cinema's defiance and blurring of previously established aesthetic, industrial and thematic parameters mirrors the way in which migratory movements question and defy geopolitical borders. The ongoing re-definition and re-negotiation of the problematic relationship between Europe and its nations also underlies Ballesteros' argument. Appropriately, the book also touches on political debates around pervasive relevant issues such as Islamic extremism or the global financial downturn of recent years. . . . This book is a must-read source for any student or researcher not only of immigration cinema in Europe, but also for those interested in European identities, European cinemas and immigration more generally, for generations to come."-- "International Journal of Iberian Studies"