Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen

This book explores the movement, fluidity and change characterizing contemporary life, as represented on screen media, from mobile devices, to television, film, computers, video art and advertising displays. It demonstrates how screen mobilities reconfigure notions of space, place, network and border regimes. Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen explores the movement, fluidity and change characterizing contemporary life, as represented on screen media, from mobile devices, to television, film, computers, video art and advertising displays. People have never moved around more, and increasingly migration and mobility have come to shape both our understandings of ourselves, and the ways in which we interpret and mediate the world we live in. As people move, media plays a key role in shaping and reshaping identity and belonging, opening the doors to transnational and transcultural participation. Drawing on screen media case studies from around the world, this book demonstrates how screen mobilities reconfigure notions of space, place, network and border regimes. The increasing ease of consumption and production of media has allowed for an unprecedented fluidity and mobility of class, gender, sexuality, nation and transnation, individual freedoms and aspirations. Putting people at the core of the book, this book shows the many ways in which people are using screen media to create identity, participation and meaning. The rich picture built up over the many chapters of this interdisciplinary volume raises important questions about the nature of contemporary media experiences. At a time of great change in the ways in which people move and connect with each other, this book provides an important global snapshot for researchers across the fields of media, communication and screen studies; sociology of communication; global studies and transnationalism; cultural studies; culture and identity; digital cultures; travel, tourism and place. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series 3 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of illustrations 9 List of contributors 10 Acknowledgments 16 Introduction 18 Part I Border crossings 24 1 Mobility and transnational relationships in alternative media discourse: migration actors, objects and emotions on the road 26 2 Physical, affective and symbolic immobility in the videos made by Sub-Saharan migrants at the EU external borders in Northern Africa 40 3 Orientalism, deterritorialization and the universe of refugees in the Brazilian Telenovela: the case of Orphans of a Nation 54 4 Representing diversity during COVID-19: minority and migrant communities in UK television news 66 5 Transnational queer screen mobilities: quick media application, home, love, and sex online 78 Part II Transnational encounters 90 6 Global service, transnational stories: streaming privileged and precarious mobility in Netflix’s original films 92 7 Going Viral: YouTube, Village Life and Digital Cultures in South India 106 8 Reimagining pastoral life in China: rural microcelebrities on YouTube 118 9 Remixing transcultural mobilities on screen: Remapping Europe, a Remix Project (2013) 129 Part III Connections and dislocations 142 10 Mobility, place and geographic filming in South African Broadcasting Corporation’s Khumbulekhaya: giving meaning to apartheid and post-apartheid dislocation(s) of the South African black people 144 11 Traversing the Urban Sitcom: the Narrative Trope of Transport and Urban Sociality in NBC’s ‘Must-See TV’ Sitcoms 155 12 Televised stations in Italy: the visualisation of mobility on transportation hubs video networks 166 13 Booktubing and bookstagramming: the boundary spanning and disembedded nostalgia of shelfies 179 Part IV Symbolic geographies 188 14 Entertainment mobilisation: Nordic noir fans and screen tourism 190 15 Mobility as a distinctive practice: Van life lifestyle and personal media 202 16 The augmented reality of tourist places: strolling into Singapore’s heritages 213 17 Amateur film tourism: crafting engaging images of holidays 224 Index 237 media;,migration;,screen,media;,sexuality;,class media,migration,screen media,sexuality,class "Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen explores the movement, fluidity and change characterizing contemporary life, as represented on screen media, from mobile devices, to television, film, computers, video art and advertising displays. People have never moved around more, and increasingly migration and mobility has come to shape both our understandings of ourselves, and the ways in which we interpret and mediate the world we live in. As people move, media plays a key role in shaping and reshaping identity and belonging, opening the doors to transnational and transcultural participation. Drawing on screen media case studies from around the world, this book demonstrates how screen mobilities reconfigure notions of space, place, network and border regimes. The increasing ease of consumption and production of media has allowed for an unprecedented fluidity and mobility of class, gender, sexuality, nation and transnation, individual freedoms and aspirations. Putting people at the core of the book, this book shows the many ways in which people are using screen media to create identity, participation and meaning. The rich picture built up over the many chapters of this interdisciplinary volume raise important questions about the nature of contemporary media experiences. At a time of great change in the ways in which people move and connect with each other, this book provides an important global snapshot for researchers across the fields of media, communication and screen studies; sociology of communication; global studies and transnationalism; cultural studies; culture and identity; digital cultures; travel, tourism and place"-- Provided by publisher This book explores the movement, fluidity and change characterizing contemporary life, as represented on screen media, from mobile devices, to television, film, computers, video art and advertising displays. It demonstrates how screen mobilities reconfigure notions of space, place, network and border regimes.