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2 Brief Encounters: The Railway Station on Film

© 2022, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Figures vii
  4. Notes on the Contributors ix
  5. Introduction 1
  6. Part 1a Mapping Cinematic Journeys: Chronotopes of Journeys
  7. 1 Global Visions: Around-the-World Travel and Visual Culture in Early Modernity 19
  8. 2 Brief Encounters: The Railway Station on Film 36
  9. 3 Diasporic Dreams and Shattered Desires: Displacement, Identity and Tradition in Heaven on Earth 50
  10. 4 Chronotopic Ghosts and Quiet Men: José Luis Guerín’s Innisfree 70
  11. 5 Memories, Notebooks, Roads: The Essayistic Journey in Time and Space 86
  12. Part 1b Expanding Europe: Interstitial Production and Border-crossing in Eastern European Cinema
  13. 6 Shadows of Unforgotten Ancestors: Representations of Estonian Mass Deportations of the 1940s in In the Crosswind and Body Memory 103
  14. 7 The Holocaust and the Cinematic Landscapes of Postmemory in Lithuania, Hungary and Ukraine 118
  15. 8 Hesitant Journeys: Fugitive and Migrant Narratives in the New Romanian Cinema 130
  16. 9 Women on the Road: Representing Female Mobility in Contemporary Hungarian–Romanian Co-productions 147
  17. Part 2a Form and Narrative in Journey Genres
  18. 10 The Sense of an Ending: Music, Time and Romance in Before Sunrise 167
  19. 11 Moving in Circles: Kinetic Elite and Kinetic Proletariat in ‘End of the World’ Films 183
  20. 12 Gothic Journeys: Travel and Transportation in the Films of Terence Fisher 199
  21. 13 Transnational Productions and Regional Funding: Bordercrossing, European Locations and the Case of Contemporary Horror 215
  22. Part 2b The Politics of the Road Movie
  23. 14 Colonialism in Latin American Road Movies 235
  24. 15 Spaces of Failure: The Gendering of Neoliberal Mobilities in the US Indie Road Movie 252
  25. 16 Sic transit: The Serial Killer Road Movie 270
  26. Index 291
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