UTOPIC HORIZONS: Cinematic Geographies of Travel and Migration
Les Roberts (Unpublished PhD Thesis, Middlesex University, 2005)
Introduction (‘Trailer’)
1. Theoretical Excursions and the Discursive Traveller
1.1 Outline of a Discursive Field
1.2 Definitions and Typologies of Travel
1.3 The Dialectics of Movement and Fixity
1.4 A Spatial Turn
1.5 Ideational Displacements: Deterritorialised Spaces of Travel
2. ‘Merchants of Light’: Travel, Film and the Ulyssean Gaze
2.1 Travel and Film: Convergent Practices
2.2 Travelling in Comfort
2.3 Ulysses’ Gaze
2.4 The Travails of Modernity: Dis/placing the Nation
3. Terra Nova: The Spatial Utopics of Travel
3.1 Ambivalent Trajectories
3.2 (E)migration and Early Film
3.3 Journeys of Hope
3.4 Lost Horizons
4. From Place to Non-Place
4.1 Re-orientations
4.2 Non-places and Any-spaces-whatever
4.3 Zones of Arrival and Departure
4.4 Zones of Stasis
4.5 Zones of Transition
5. Spaces of Transition: Peripatetic Geographies of the Road
5.1 The Road Ahead
5.2 Wandering
5.3 Roads to Nowhere
5.4 Spaces of Transition
5.5 Cultivating Labours
6. Conclusion: From Non-Place to Place
6.1 The Filmmaker-as-traveller
6.2 Utopic Space
6.3 Cultivating Labours: Cultivating Place
FILMOGRAPHY
Alexander The Great (O Megalexandros). Dir: Theo Angelopoulos. Greece/Italy, 1980.
Alice In The Cities (Alice in den Städten). Dir: Wim Wenders. West Germany, 1974.
America, America. Dir: Elia Kazan. US, 1963.
Arrival Of Emigrants [i.e. Immigrants], Ellis Island (Arrival of Immigrants, Ellis Island). America Mutoscope / Biograph Co. US, 1906.
Arriveé D’un Train En Gare, L’. Dir: Auguste Lumière and Louis Lumière. France, 1895.
Avventura, L’ (Adventure, The). Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni. Italy/France, 1960.
Beach, The. Dir: Danny Boyle. US, 2000.
Beekeeper, The (O Melissokomos). Dir: Theo Angelopoulos. Greece/France, 1986.
Beyond Our Dreams (Ji Xewnên Me Wêda / Passeurs de Rêves). Dir: Hiner Saleem. France/Armenia/Italy, 2000.
Bhaji On The Beach. Dir: Gurinder Chadha. UK, 1993.
Bus, The (Otobüs). Dir: Tunc Okan. Turkey, 1977.
Butterfly Kiss. Dir: Michael Winterbottom. UK, 1994.
Cannibal Tours. Dir: Dennis O’Rourke. Australia, 1987.
Canterbury Tale, A. Dir: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. UK, 1944.
Clandestins. Dir: Denis Chouinard and Nicolas Wadimoff. Switzerland/Canada/France/ Belgium, 1997.
Cold Fever (Á Köldum Klaka). Dir: Fridrik Thor Fridiksson. Iceland/Germany/Switzerland, 1994.
Crash. Dir: David Cronenberg. Canada, 1996.
Cruise To St. Kilda And The Western Isles, A. Dir: Unknown. UK, 1929.
Drôle De Félix (Funny Felix). Dir: Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau. France, 2000.
Easy Rider. Dir: Dennis Hopper. US, 1969.
Edge Of The World, The. Dir: Michael Powell. UK, 1937.
El Norte. Dir: Gregory Nava. US, 1983.
Emigrants [i.e. Immigrants] Landing At Ellis Island (Immigrants Landing at Ellis Island). Dir: Thomas A Edison. US, 1903.
Emigrants, The (Utvandrarna). Dir: Jan Troell. Sweden, 1971.
Eternity And A Day (Mia Eoniotita Ke Mia Mera). Dir: Theo Angelopoulos. Greece/France/Italy, 1998.
Gadjo Dilo (The Crazy Stranger). Dir: Tony Gatlif. Romania/France, 1997.
Gallivant. Dir: Andrew Kotting. UK, 1996.
Gleaners And I, The (Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse). Dir: Agnès Varda. France, 2000.
Gleaners And I: Two Years Later, The (Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse: deux ans après). Dir: Agnès Varda, France. 2002.
Glimpses Of India. Dir: Unknown. UK, 1929.
Grapes Of Wrath, The. Dir: John Ford. US, 1940.
Grass: A Nation’s Battle For Life. Dir: Merian C Cooper and Ernest B Schoedsack. US, 1925.
Great Train Robbery, The. Dir: Edwin S Porter. US, 1903.
Hebrew Fugitive, The (Im Lande der Unterdrückung). Dir: Unknown. US, 1908.
Hunters, The (E Kenege). Dir: Theo Angelopoulos. Greece/France, 1977.
I Know Where I’m Going. Dir: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. UK, 1945.
Immigrant, The. Dir: Charles Chaplin. US, 1917.
In This World. Dir: Michael Winterbottom. UK, 2002.
Jacquot de Nantes. Dir: Agnès Varda. France, 1990.
Jetée, La. Dir: Chris Marker. France, 1962.
Journey Down Route 66, A. Dir: Christopher Lewis. US, 1994.
Journey Of Hope (Reise der Hoffnung). Dir: Xavier Koller. Switzerland, 1990.
Journey To Kafiristan, The (Die Reise nach Kafiristan). Dir: Fosco Dubini and Donatello Dubini. Germany/Switzerland/Netherlands, 2001
Journey To The Sun (Günese Yolculuk). Dir: Yesim Ustaoglu. Turkey/Netherlands/ Germany, 2000.
Kings Of The Road (Im Lauf der Zeit). Dir: Wim Wenders. West Germany, 1976.
Lacho Drom (Safe Journey). Dir: Tony Gatlif. France, 1993.
Lad From Old Ireland, The. Dir: Sidney Olcott. US, 1910.
Landscape In The Mist (Topio stin Omichli). Dir: Theo Angelopoulos. Greece/France/Italy, 1988.
Last Orders. Dir: Fred Schepisi. UK/Germany, 2001.
Last Resort. Dir: Pawel Pawlikowski. UK, 2000.
Letter From An Unknown Woman. Dir: Max Ophüls. US, 1948.
London. Dir: Patrick Keiller. UK, 1997.
London Orbital. Dir: Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair. UK, 2002.
Lost Horizon. Dir: Frank Capra. US, 1937.
Lumière et compagnie (Lumière and Company). Dir: Theo Angelopoulos et al. France/Denmark/Spain/Sweden, 1995.
Making An American Citizen (L’Américanisé). Dir: Alice Guy Blache. US, 1912.
New Land, The (Nybyggarna). Dir: Jan Troell. Sweden, 1972.
Ninety Degrees South. Dir: Herbert Ponting. UK, 1933.
Nostalgia (Nostalghia). Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky. Italy/France/USSR, 1983.
O Dreamland. Dir: Lindsay Anderson. UK, 1953.
Off To The Revolution By 2CV (Alla Rivoluzione Sulla due Cavalli). Dir: Maurizio Sciara. Italy, 2001.
Open Road, The. Dir: Claude Friese-Greene. UK, 1924.
Paris, Texas. Dir: Wim Wenders. UK/France/West Germany, 1984.
Photograph, The (Wêne). Dir: Kazim Ox. Turkey, 2000.
Radio On. Dir: Christopher Petit. UK/West Germany, 1979.
Railway Ride Along French Riviera. Dir: Unknown. Country Unknown, 1910.
Reconstruction (Anaparastasi). Dir: Theo Angelopoulos. Greece, 1970.
Roadblocks (Berlêgirtinên Rê). Dir: Stavros Ioannou. Greece, 2000.
Robinson In Space. Dir: Patrick Keiller. UK, 1997.
Shawshank Redemption, The. Dir: Frank Darabont. US, 1994.
Solaris. Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky. USSR, 1972.
South. Dir: Frank Hurley. UK, 1919.
Stand-By. Dir: Roch Stephanik. France, 2000.
Suspended Step Of The Stork, The (To Meteoro Vima Tou Pelargou). Dir: Theo Angelopoulos. France/Italy/Switzerland/Greece, 1991.
Tempo Di Viaggio (Time of Travel / Travelling Time). Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky. Italy, 1983.
Terminal, The. Dir: Steven Spielberg. US, 2004.
Three Colours: Red (Trois Couleurs: Rouge). Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski. Poland/France/ Switzerland, 1994.
Time Of The Gypsies (Dom Za Vesanje). Dir: Emir Kusturica. UK/Italy/Yugoslavia, 1988.
Time Out (L’Emploi du Temps). Dir: Laurent Cantet. France, 2001.
To The Sunny East. Dir: Unknown. Country Unknown, 1926.
Tokyo Story (Tokyo monogatari). Dir: Yasujiro Ozu. Japan, 1953.
Traffic Jam (Jutai). Dir: Mitsuo Kurotsuchi. Japan, 1991.
Travelling Players, The (O Thiassos). Dir: Theo Angelopoulos. Greece, 1975.
Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (Trilogia I: To Livadi Pou Dakryzei). Dir: Theo Angelopoulos. France/Greece/Italy, 2004.
Trip On The Italian Lakes, A. Dir: Unknown. Italy, 1908.
Trip To Brazil, A. Dir: Unknown. UK, 1910.
Tunnel sous La Manche, La. Dir: George Meliés. France, 1906.
Ulysees’ Gaze (To Vlemma Tou Odyssea). Dir: Theo Angelopoulos. Greece/Italy/France, 1995.
Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi). Dir: Agnès Varda. France/UK, 1985.
Vallée, La (Obscured by Clouds). Dir: Barbet Schroeder. France, 1972.
Vanishing, The (Spoorloos). Dir: George Sluizer. Netherlands/France, 1988.
Voyage To Cythera (Taxidi Sta Kithira). Dir: Theo Angelopoulos. Greece/German Federal Republic/Italy/UK, 1983.
Voyages. Dir: Emmanuel Finkiel. France, 2000.
Weekend. Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. Italy/France, 1967.
Wings Of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin). Dir: Wim Wenders. West Germany/France, 1987.
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