New Storytellers on Border Crossing to the U.S. (1995-2016). The Representation of Migration from Latin America in Today's Documentary Filmmaking (3H170532)

KU Leuven , 1 or 2 semesters
The research group analyzes how theories of cultural (self-)translation apply to documentaries on Latin American migration to the United States.
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New Storytellers on Border Crossing to the U.S. (1995-2016)
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The research group intends to verify how recent documentaries represent migration and how they convey transcultural memory using specific aesthetic and narratological devices. Today's documentaries not only portray a spatial and identitarian in-betweenness which transcends national, political, social, linguistic and cultural borders, but also further explore the frontiers between fact and fiction.

Prerequisites

  • High level undergraduate student.
  • Minimum GPA 3.4

Faculty Department

Faculty of Arts / Department of Language Studies

Research on Translation/Interpreting, Communication, Journalism; Education: Bachelor in Applied Languages, Master in Translation/Interpreting/Business Communication/Journalism Studies.