Daniela Berghahn is Professor of Film Studies in the Media Arts Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has extensively published on German and transnational European cinema. Her publications include Unity and Diversity in the New Europe (co-edited, 2000), Hollywood Behind the Wall: The Cinema of East Germany (2005), Turkish-German Dialogues on Screen (special issue New Cinemas, 2009) and European Cinema in Motion: Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary Europe (co-edited, 2010).
''Far-Flung Families in Film explores the conflicted tensions
sustaining its key terms diasporic and family. Giving full scope to
the centrifugal and centripetal forces at work, Daniela Berghahn
admirably proves that the transnational turn has energized not only
filmmakers, but invigorated
debate among the academic community as well.' - Thomas Elsaesser,
author of European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood
'Daniela Berghahn provides a timely, wide-ranging, and engaging
analysis of diasporic family films made by key directors from
around the world living in Europe and identifies a new European
cinema in the new multicultural Europe.' - Hamid Naficy, author of
An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic
Filmmaking
The beautifully illustrated Far-Flung Families in Film is a
milestone in the study of diasporic film and 'accented cinema'
(Hamid Naficy), and it also marks a particularly original and
much-needed contribution to transnational cinema studies. I would
warmly recommend Daniela Berghahn's book to
scholars, students, makers, promoters and critics of film as well
as to learned cinema-goers. - Marta Minier, Transnational
Cinemas
Berghahn's engaging style, the range of her material and the depth
of analysis make this a refreshing contribution to the field. This
is a fascinating and timely volume which will appeal to academics,
but ought also to reach a wider audience interested in contemporary
cinema. -- Alexandra Lloyd,
Journal of Contemporary European Studies
'Berghahn's monograph offers a valuable contribution to the field
of transnational European film studies. Furthermore, having enjoyed
the resources offered by an AHRC grant, it benefits from a very
useful companion website (farflungfamilies.net) that offers
additional material on the films
discussed, as well as related podcasts and information. This not
only facilitates further its pedagogic use, but also allows it to
circulate even more widely and transnationally than the book
itself, potentially having an impact not only on further academic
studies of diasporic cinema but also on
the filmmaking community itself, inspiring the production and
circulation of ever more films that address crosscultural themes
and issues.' -- Lydia Papadimitriou, Screen
'Daniela Berghahn exhibits here her characteristic ability to
provide an overview of a large and complicated topic with clarity,
theoretical insight, and scholarly erudition. In five chapters plus
an introduction, Berghahn discusses the development of a genre that
is interconnected with the history
of labor migration, asylum, and exile...Its multilingual
bibliography is itself an excellent tool to foster transnational
and truly European models of research. The clarity of writing style
and the breadth of the discussion make it appropriate for multiple
levels, including the undergraduate
classroom.' -- Randall Halle, Monatshefte
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