World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives

Name: World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives
Brand: Taylor & Francis
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World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives challenges the conventional focus on "national cinema" by exploring cinema through the lens of the "transnational." This anthology critically examines how national and transnational cinematic categories coexist, analysing historiographical methods that cross national borders. The book is structured in three parts: the geopolitical imaginary, transnational cinematic institutions, and the uneven flow of words and images, offering a comprehensive enquiry into global cinema practices.
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Ideal for film scholars, students of global cinema, and readers interested in transnational cultural studies and film theory.

The standard analytical category of "national cinema" has been called into question by the category of the "transnational." This work examines the premises and consequences of the coexistence of these two categories and the parameters of historiographical approaches that cross the borders of nation states.

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The standard analytical category of "national cinema" has increasingly been called into question by the category of the "transnational." This anthology examines the premises and consequences of the coexistence of these two categories and the parameters of historiographical approaches that cross the borders of nation-states.

The three sections of World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives cover the geopolitical imaginary, transnational cinematic institutions, and the uneven flow of words and images.

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"This splendid book investigates the ways in which cinema operates internationally and interconnectedly." – Choice

"Many of these essays open new avenues of investigation that will keep scholars busy for a generation." – Choice

"A timely and important contribution to updating film studies reflecting the changed global context." – Transnational Cinemas

"An engaging volume elucidating emergent global cinema practices shaped by sociopolitical, industrial, and technological changes." – Hamid Naficy

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780415976534

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 September 2009

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 1 Tables, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Nataša Durovicová
Edited by Kathleen E. Newman

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 870g

Pages: 366

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction Series: AFI Film Readers

About the Author

Natasa Durovicová is Editor of 91st Meridian, the online journal of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Her scholarship has dealt with the shifting concept of national cinema as a historigraphic category and with the role of language, voice and sound during the interwar years. Her current project bears on translation as a strategy of cognitive mapping of world cinema flows. Most recently, she was Visiting Faculty Member (2003-5) at the MAGIS Spring School [Gardisca, Italy}.
Kathleen E. Newman is Associate Professor of Cinema and Spanish at the University of Iowa. Her research and teaching focuses on Latin American, Chicano, and Spanish cinemas as well as on theoretical question regarding the relation between fictional narrative and politics and the relation between cinema and globalization. She is the author of La violencia deldicurso: elestado autoritario y la novella politicaargentina. Her current book project, Agentine SilentFilm: Feminism, Democracy, and Modernity, is a study of the relation between silent film, early feminist movements and democratization in Argentina in the first three decades of the twentieth century.

World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives