Review: Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema, edited by James S. Williams

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Book Review| June 01 2021 Review: Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema, edited by James S. Williams Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema, edited by James S. Williams Áine O’Healy Áine O’Healy Áine O’Healy is a professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Loyola Marymount University. She is the author of Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame (Indiana University Press, 2019) and, with Katarzyna Marciniak and Anikó Imre, coeditor of Transnational Feminism in Film and Media (Palgrave, 2011). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar BOOK DATA. James S. Williams, ed., Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema. London: Routledge, 2020. $160 cloth. 294 pages. Film Quarterly (2021) 74 (4): 96–98. https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2021.74.4.96 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Áine O’Healy; Review: Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema, edited by James S. Williams. Film Quarterly 1 June 2021; 74 (4): 96–98. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2021.74.4.96 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentFilm Quarterly Search BOOK DATA. James S. Williams, ed., Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema. London: Routledge, 2020. $160 cloth. 294 pages. In recent years, as escalating numbers of migrants and refugees from the East and the global South sought to enter the European Union, films engaging with migration began to proliferate across the Continent. Simultaneously, the emergence of right-wing nationalism and nativist ideologies in several European states fanned significant anti-immigrant sentiment, particularly in the second decade of the twenty-first century, when the humanitarian crisis sparked by the movement of millions of refugees fleeing war and uprisings in the Middle East drew intense media attention. As conflicts accompanying the encounter of European citizens with non-European migrants found increasing resonance in cinema, scholarly analyses of this material grew exponentially. This body of research includes several book-length studies either engaging with films produced across the European territory or examining case studies originating in... You do not currently have access to this content.