von Hagen, Kirsten
Counterstrategies to the Antigypsy Gaze
Countering antigypsyism in film is the problem field which this edited collection inaugurates. The aim is to shift the focus from antigypsyism critique and open up alongside it a new set of discussions about the artistic counterstrategies to antigypsyism, highlighting the need for intertextual, transcultural, and transmedial approaches in the analysis. The contributions foreground the applicability of the research findings and provide a broad range of examples, which may be useful to filmmakers and professionals from the film industry.
The volume documents the case studies presented at the international workshop “Artistic Alternatives to the Antigypsy Gaze” held in Heidelberg in 2021.
Antigypsyism and Film / Antiziganismus und Film
Antiziganism is a common phenomenon on the big screen. To examine this issue from various perspectives, acclaimed scholars and junior researchers, filmmakers and human rights activists, both Roma and non-Roma, gathered in Berlin in 2018 and presented their research output, shared personal testimonies and discussed films at the international conference “Antigypsyism and Film“.
The present bilingual volume is a documentation of the conference proceedings. It contains academic articles and essays as well as interviews with filmmakers grouped in four thematic sections: antigypsyism in film, the question of ethics, strategies of subversion and antigypsyism in comparison to other forms of racism.
