Mrs Yael Gordon is a Postgraduate research student within Film at the University of Southampton funded by the University of Southampton Vice-Chancellors Award
2010-2015 MFA degree in Film and Television, Tel Aviv University, Israel
2003-2006 BA, Behavioural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheba, Israel
My research focuses on genre based representations of the refugee child figure in European cinema. This topic is relevant and timely as Europe is facing its biggest refugee crisis since World War II, the research aims to explore the relation between the political power of cinema and of children in cinema through their representation in different genres.
Further research interest are more generally children in cinema, migration cinema, encounter with the Other and representation.