Kinotopias : Film, Place and Belonging in a Bordered World (Political Cinemas)

Smets, Kevin/ Soberon, Lennart/ Gutiérrez-Torres, Irene

Edinburgh University Press（2026/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 208 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399536653

Full Description

Combining original research with insights from social sciences, philosophy and film theory, it argues that film can effectively capture both material and socio-cultural dimensions of borders and their underlying tensions. From popular cinema using border surveillance optics to militant and amateur filmmaking by borderlanders, Kinotopias: Film, Place and Belonging in a Bordered World traces diverging strategies that use film to enforce or overcome borders, demonstrating how film can become a political instrument for belonging. Introducing the concept of debordering film, the book urges a rethinking of how film is made, studied and understood, foregrounding neglected forms, voices and spatial experiences.

​​​​​​​Through an ambitious conceptual framework stemming from research on highly politicised borders in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, Kinotopias makes a strong case for the social and political power of film as a tool of resistance and reimagination.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Kinotopias and border cinemas

1. Kinotopias and the social spatiality of film

2. The border as black box: Documentary cinema and the forensic geographies of displacement

Part II: Border cultures and representations

3. Phantom pains: Brexit-era border cinema and the anxiety of the unseen

4. Cinematic autonomy: Contested space and film in North and East Syria (Rojava)

Part III: Methodologies and interventions

5. Emotions and borders: Feminist geopolitics and intimate film experiences

6. Vernacular border cinema: participatory filmmaking as placemaking

Afterword: Debordering film

Appendix

Index