Tabla de Contenidos: “…Paradigms of attitudes towards immigration : science fiction films as allegories in the mid-century / Juan Bruce-Novoa -- No country for old certainties : ambivalence, hybridity, and dangerous crossings in three borderland films / Page Laws -- Bodies and hybrid tropes : border crossings in recent films / Cathy Covell Waegner -- From alien nation to alienation : tracing the figure of the guest worker in Fatih Akin's Gegen die Wand / Tessa C. Lee -- "Lunch with the bigot" : 9/11 in Bollywood's filmic imagination / Mita Banerjee -- Migrant adaptations in television. …”

“…Through close analysis, or micro-analysis, of Messidor (Alain Tanner, 1979), Vendredi Soir (Claire Denis, 2002), Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour, 2012), and Head-On (Fatih Akin, 2004), this book looks for light, textures, rhythms, movement, and sound that give shape to affirmative forms, forms that contribute to rewriting bodies and spaces—such as cars, homes, and city streets—that reject traditional gender and power structures. …”