Transnational cinema : the film reader /

Transnational cinema is a rapidly developing field within film studies. This reader offers an overview of key concepts & debates, drawing together seminal essays from a broad variety of sources.

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Other Authors: Ezra, Elizabeth, 1965-, Rowden, Terry
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Series:In focus--Routledge film readers.
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Table of Contents:
  • What is transnational cinema? / Elizabeth Ezra and Terry Rowden
  • The limiting imagination of national cinema / Andrew Higson
  • Africans filming Africa : questioning theories of an authentic African cinema / David Murphy
  • Post-third-worldist culture : gender, nation, and the cinema / Ella Shohat
  • Bombay boys and girls : the gender and sexual politics of transnationality in the new Indian cinema in English / Jigna Desai
  • The instantaneous worldwide release : coming soon to everyone, everywhere / Robert E. Davis
  • Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and participatory fandom : mapping new congruencies between the Internet and media entertainment culture / Elana Shefrin
  • Transnational documentaries : a manifesto / John Hess and Patricia R. Zimmermann
  • Situating accented cinema / Hamid Naficy
  • Beur cinema and the politics of location : French immigration politics and the naming of a film movement / Peter Bloom
  • Diaspora and national identity : exporting "China" through the Hong Kong cinema / David Desser
  • Migrancy and the Latin American cinemascape : towards a post-national critical praxis / Ann Marie Stock
  • Romance and/as tourism : heritage whiteness and the (inter)national imaginary in the new woman's film / Diane Negra
  • Four forms for terrorism : horror, dystopia, thriller, and noir / John S. Nelson
  • Terror and after / Homi K. Bhabha.