Transnational mobility and migration are amongst the most powerful forces of social transformation in the contemporary world. Over the past three decades, representations of migrant and diasporic experiences and the dynamics of postmodern multiculturalism have assumed a prominent position in European mainstream and art house cinema. Filmmakers with a migratory background have brought about the World Cinema turn in European cinema by introducing new narratives and by fusing Western and non-Western aesthetic traditions. European Cinema in Motion develops an original theory of migrant and diasporic cinema and provides an overview of its cultural and industrial contexts in Europe. Representative case studies of more than eighty films adopt a comparative perspective in the search for the commonalities and differences between productions from Western, Southern and Eastern Europe. The contributions reflect the wide spectrum of this important new field at the interface of (trans)national, European and World Cinema.
The paperback edition comes with a new Preface which provides an overview of recent developments in the field of transnational cinema. It provides a succinct
and informative account of scholarly debates that emerged since the publication of the hardback edition in 2010, paying particular attention to new publications between 2010 and 2013. The preface also explores how, in recent years migrant and diasporic cinema
has become more mainstream, both in terms of box office figures as well as in terms of setting an aesthetic agenda that has influenced mainstream cinema.
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