Ominous Homelands in World Cinema - Moving Images of (In)security and the Rise of Neo-Nationalisms

This book examines contemporary films, produced in different national contexts, which disclose and interrogate ideas and images of "Homeland". It will interest students and scholars not only in film studies, media studies and popular culture, but also in global security, contemporary history, American studies, and global cultural studies.

List of contents

1. Introduction: "Homelands" in Comparison and Moving Images of (In)security
2. Homeland, Trumpland, Nomadland: Homeless Elegies in the USA
3. European Homelands: Colonial Legacies and Circum-Atlantic Crises
4. The Special Relation UK/US: Ghost Writers in Borrowed Homes and Wars
5. Inhospitable Nordic Landscapes: The Collapse of the Northern Model of Hospitality
6. Transatlantic Transactions in Brazil: Decolonizing the Sea Front and the Western
7. Gory Homes in East Asia: Hosts/Guests in Japan and South Korea
8. Israel/Palestine: Escapist Fantasies and (Im)Possible Homelands
9. Ominous Homelands: Final Words
Index

About the author

Susana Araújo is a permanent member of the academic staff at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Coimbra, Portugal and a researcher at CEComp, Faculty of Arts and Humanities University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is the author of the monograph Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the War on Terror: Images of Terror, Narratives of Captivity (2015) which was chosen as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice in 2016. She has published widely in recognized journals such as European Journal of English Studies, Atlantic Studies, Studies in the Novel, Women Studies, Critical Survey, Symbiosis and Review of International American Studies. She was vice-director of the Comparative Studies Research Centre (CEC), where she was also coordinator of Group Locus and PI in national and international funded projects among these the FCT Project CILM - City and (In)security in Literature and the Media.

Product details

• Authors: Susana (University of Coimbra Araujo, Susana Araújo
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 29.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032550756
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3255075-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; History, Popular Culture, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Documentary films, Warfare & defence, Terrorism, armed struggle, Humanities, Political campaigning & advertising, Warfare and defence, Political campaigning and advertising, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Reference