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World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives
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Ideal for film scholars, students of global cinema, and readers interested in transnational cultural studies and film theory.
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See moreThe 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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SCMS Award Winner Best Edited Collection
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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World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives
SCMS Award Winner Best Edited Collection 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...Hardback$66700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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"This splendid book investigates the ways in which cinema operates internationally and interconnectedly." β Choice
"Many of these essays open new avenues of investigation that will keep scholars busy for a generation." β Choice
"A timely and important contribution to updating film studies reflecting the changed global context." β Transnational Cinemas
"An engaging volume elucidating emergent global cinema practices shaped by sociopolitical, industrial, and technological changes." β 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 NataΕ‘a DurovicovΓ‘
- Edited by Kathleen E. Newman
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 870g
Pages: 366
About the Author
Natasa DurovicovΓ‘ 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.
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