Border Mediascapes
Cinematic Itineraries at the Edge of Europe
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2026
University of Minnesota Press (Verlag)
978-1-5179-1891-0 (ISBN)
University of Minnesota Press (Verlag)
978-1-5179-1891-0 (ISBN)
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How the cinematic gaze reveals the hidden operations of border zones
Examining a variety of documentary films made along the borders of Europe since the turn of the twenty-first century, Border Mediascapes takes a cinematic eye to the technologies employed in governing spatial movement. Working at the intersections of social sciences, political theory, contemporary media, and cinema aesthetics, this book expands our understanding of the border as not just a static political boundary inscribed on a map but a complex, dynamic network of human and nonhuman agents.
Francesco Zucconi asserts that contemporary borders are environments defined by media: a perpetually shifting set of interactions between physical bodies and sensors, surveillance cameras, satellites, mapping programs, digital signage, and cellular devices. Analyzing documentaries filmed by or in collaboration with migrants, Border Mediascapes demonstrates how cinema can be used to reveal the otherwise unseen apparatuses that facilitate systematized practices of recognition, expulsion, and erasure.
As he details the ways specific border technologies measure and identify individuals as part of the larger project of territorial control, Zucconi illustrates the effectiveness of cinema for capturing the entanglement of geopolitics and biopolitics. Viewing the cinematic perspective as simultaneously analytical, critical, and complicit with the new technological frontier, Zucconi shows how the medium can deepen our understanding of borders as sites of power, resistance, and resilience.
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Examining a variety of documentary films made along the borders of Europe since the turn of the twenty-first century, Border Mediascapes takes a cinematic eye to the technologies employed in governing spatial movement. Working at the intersections of social sciences, political theory, contemporary media, and cinema aesthetics, this book expands our understanding of the border as not just a static political boundary inscribed on a map but a complex, dynamic network of human and nonhuman agents.
Francesco Zucconi asserts that contemporary borders are environments defined by media: a perpetually shifting set of interactions between physical bodies and sensors, surveillance cameras, satellites, mapping programs, digital signage, and cellular devices. Analyzing documentaries filmed by or in collaboration with migrants, Border Mediascapes demonstrates how cinema can be used to reveal the otherwise unseen apparatuses that facilitate systematized practices of recognition, expulsion, and erasure.
As he details the ways specific border technologies measure and identify individuals as part of the larger project of territorial control, Zucconi illustrates the effectiveness of cinema for capturing the entanglement of geopolitics and biopolitics. Viewing the cinematic perspective as simultaneously analytical, critical, and complicit with the new technological frontier, Zucconi shows how the medium can deepen our understanding of borders as sites of power, resistance, and resilience.
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Francesco Zucconi is associate professor of film and media theory at the IUAV University of Venice and is author of several books, including Displacing Caravaggio: Art, Media, and Humanitarian Visual Culture.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Border Mediascapes
1. Hot and Cold Borders
2. Operational Frontiers
3. Archaeology of the Fortress
4. Embodied Borders and Customized Bodies
5. Spectrology of the Border
6. Participation and Citizenship
Conclusion: Filming at the Border
Filmography
Notes
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.2.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 26 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Minnesota |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 255 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5179-1891-X / 151791891X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5179-1891-0 / 9781517918910 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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