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Threads and traces – American Passages and Those Who Go Those Who Stay
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Chapter 7 explores these two films as analyses of contemporary migrancy and displacement (contrasting with the previous chapter’s emphasis on home and belonging) via the road movie structure of American Passages, which draws on Robert Frank’s photography in its presentation of individual performances of American identity and enactments of the image; and the restrictions and containment of migrancy through borderisation processes in Those Who Stay Those Who Go, which maps a neoliberalised geopolitical world of intersecting states, borders, and transit zones via a structure of palimpsestic intertextuality, notably drawing on the cinema of Theo Angelopoulos but also on a long tradition of textual revisions of Homer’s Odyssey.

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