Ominous Homelands in World Cinema: Moving Images of (In)Security and the Rise of Neo-Nationalisms

Winner of the 2026 Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra International Publications Prize (Prémio Publicações Internacionais da FLUC)

Ominous Homelands in World Cinema examines contemporary films from a range of national settings that expose and critically engage with representations of “Homeland” – a term that resurfaced with renewed intensity in the United States through the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security after 9/11 and gained traction across Eur...