City limits

filming Belfast, Beirut and Berlin in troubled times

Stephanie Schwerter (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2023 | 1. Auflage
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-8042-6 (ISBN)

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Belfast, Beirut and Berlin are notorious for their internal boundaries and borders. As symbols for political disunion, the three cities have inspired scriptwriters and directors from diverse cultural backgrounds. Despite their different histories, they share a wide range of features central to divided cities. In each city, particular territories take on specific symbolic and psychological meanings. Following a comparative approach, this book concentrates on the cinematographic representations of Belfast, Beirut and Berlin. Filmmakers are in constant search of new ways in order to engage with urban division. Making use of a variety of genres reaching from thriller to comedy, they explore the three cities’ internal and external borders, as well as the psychological boundaries existing between citizens belonging to different communities. Among the characters featuring in films set in Belfast, Berlin and Beirut, we may count dangerous gunmen, prisoners’ wives, soldiers and snipers, but also comic Stasi-members, punk aficionados and fake nuns. The various characters contribute to the creation of a multifaceted image of city limits in troubled times.

Stephanie Schwerter is Professor of Anglophone Literature at the Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France. She spent six years in Northern Ireland, working at the University of Ulster and at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research interest is in the literary and cinematographic representation of divided cities.

1. Historical and Cultural Background
2. Urban Space and Territoriality
3. Tropes of Violence
4. Representing Division through Humor
5. Between Present, Past and Future
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2023
Zusatzinfo	Illustrationen
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Einbandart	kartoniert
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-8042-7 / 1501380427
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-8042-6 / 9781501380426
Zustand	Neuware