TY - CHAP
T1 - The Bourne multiplicity
T2 - quantum Europeanness in the Bourne films (2002-16)
AU - Stone, Rob
PY - 2021/12/30
Y1 - 2021/12/30
N2 - A cross-section of people crossing Europe might show tourists, commuters, immigrants, refugees, terrorists and victims of trafficking. So, locating all these permutations in a single character would require a quantum individual capable of representing multitudinous identities in multifold Europes moving in multiple directions as well as multifarious aspects from within and beyond the European Union of what Europeanness means. Entering the liminal space of a Moscow that ignores the euro and deals in American and Russian currencies pushes Bourne to the edge of the European Union, the limits of his multiplicity, and within sight of redemption. The Bourne films speak of the heterogeneity of the European peoples that will always be distinct from the formal unity of the European Union. The temporalized existential duality of Bourne is so embedded within the dynamics of contemporary Europe that there is satire in his predicament.
AB - A cross-section of people crossing Europe might show tourists, commuters, immigrants, refugees, terrorists and victims of trafficking. So, locating all these permutations in a single character would require a quantum individual capable of representing multitudinous identities in multifold Europes moving in multiple directions as well as multifarious aspects from within and beyond the European Union of what Europeanness means. Entering the liminal space of a Moscow that ignores the euro and deals in American and Russian currencies pushes Bourne to the edge of the European Union, the limits of his multiplicity, and within sight of redemption. The Bourne films speak of the heterogeneity of the European peoples that will always be distinct from the formal unity of the European Union. The temporalized existential duality of Bourne is so embedded within the dynamics of contemporary Europe that there is satire in his predicament.
KW - European
KW - Cinema
KW - Bourne
KW - Multiplicity
KW - Quantum
UR - https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-European-Cinema/Gergely-Hayward/p/book/9780367461850
U2 - 10.4324/9781003027447-15
DO - 10.4324/9781003027447-15
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9780367461850
T3 - Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
BT - The Routledge Companion to European Cinema
A2 - Hayward, Susan
A2 - Gergely, Gabor
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -