VUB - Free University of Brussels
Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (BE1) · Belgium
ERC Starting Grant · 2020
REEL BORDERS aims to bring fiction film to the centre of discussions about borders and belonging. As different institutions increasingly turn to fiction film to circulate messages about borders, the study looks at how borders and fiction film have been related from the early 20th century. Border regimes are intimately intertwined with cultural imaginations and representations of borders and their insiders and outsiders. This project is the first to comprehensively investigate this relation across different borderlands and for the various actors involved. While grounded in the cultural studies tradition, it originally combines insights from representations research, film theory, popular…
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