World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives by Nata?a Durovicov? (English) Paperba

Description: World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives by Nataša Durovicová, Kathleen E. Newman 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography 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. Table of Contents PrefacePart One: The Geopolitical Imaginary of Cinema Studies 1. Transnational Film Theory: Decentered Subjectivity, Decentered Capitalism Kathleen Newman2. On the Plurality of Cinematic Transnationalism Mette Hjort3. Tracking "Global Media" in the Outposts of Globalization Bhaskar Sarkar4. Time Zones and Jetlag: The Flows and Phases of World Cinema Dudley Andrew5. Vector, Flow, Zone: Towards a History of Cinematic Translatio Nataša DurovicováPart Two: Cinema as Transnational Exchange 6. Chinese Cinema and Transnational Film Studies Yingjin Zhang7. A National Cinema Abroad: From Production to Viewing Toby Miller8. Aural Identity, Genealogies of Sound Technologies, and Hispanic Transnationality on Screen Marvin DLugo9. How Movies Move (Between Hong Kong and Bulawayo, Between Screen and Stage...) Lesley Stern10. New Paradoxes of Africas Cinemas Olivier Barlet11. The Transnational Other: Street Kids in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema João Luiz VieiraPart Three: Comparative Perspectives 12. Fantasy in Action Paul Willemen13. Vernacular Modernism: Tracking Cinema on a Global Scale Miriam Hansen14. Globalization and Hybridization Fredric Jameson15. From Playtime to The World: The Expansion and Depletion of Space Within Global Economies Jonathan RosenbaumBibliographyContributors Index Review this splendid book investigates the ways in whihc cinema operates internationally and interconnectedly. - ChoiceMany of these essays open new avenues of investigation that will keep scholars busy for a generation. - Choice"This book is a timely and important contribution toward updating film studies in accordance with the changed context in which the discipline now finds itself." --Transnational Cinemas"The editors of World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives might well have added Cinema in the Age of Transnational Reproduction as the subtitle of their engaging volume. The contributors parse and elucidate the proliferating typology of emergent national, international, transnational, world, multinational, postnational, paranational, and global cinema practices and theories worldwide. They take into consideration the changing sociopolitical, financial, industrial, technological, and demographic changes that underpin these cinematic developments. The result is a fascinating textual and contextual reader on our current moment of globalization."--Hamid Naficy, Northwestern University, author of An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking."This ambitious and intellectually engaging volume succeeds in its aim to rethink the geopolitical imaginary of film studies as a discipline, by reconsidering film historiography beyond the nation-state and focusing instead on a variety of transnational formations. Essays by leading scholars provide not only new theoretical and methodological approaches, but also illuminating case studies and discussions of the comparative process itself, deepening and expanding our understanding of world cinemas in a revised frame of film history. World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives represents the very best in film scholarship today."--Patrice Petro, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, author of Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History"This splendid book investigates the ways in which cinema operates internationally and interconnectedly. Durovicovi and Newman (both, Univ. of Iowa) argue that in the current era of globalization, studying particular national cinemas, particular genres, or narrowly focused theories in isolation no longer makes sense. The volume includes essays on international financing and production, worldwide distribution, audience reception, the interpretation of genres and styles (think kung-fu goes to Bollywood--or to Bulawayo), and the hybridization of theory. This reviewer especially admired Paul Willemans "Fantasy in Action." Many of these essays open new avenues of investigation that will keep scholars busy for a generation. Summing up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. --W.A. Vincent, Michigan State University Review Quote "This book is a timely and important contribution toward updating film studies in accordance with the changed context in which the discipline now finds itself." --Transnational Cinemas "The editors of World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectivesmight well have added Cinema in the Age of Transnational Reproduction as the subtitle of their engaging volume. The contributors parse and elucidate the proliferating typology of emergent national, international, transnational, world, multinational, postnational, paranational, and global cinema practices and theories worldwide. They take into consideration the changing sociopolitical, financial, industrial, technological, and demographic changes that underpin these cinematic developments. The result is a fascinating textual and contextual reader on our current moment of globalization."--Hamid Naficy, Northwestern University, author of An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking. "This ambitious and intellectually engaging volume succeeds in its aim to rethink the geopolitical imaginary of film studies as a discipline, by reconsidering film historiography beyond the nation-state and focusing instead on a variety of transnational formations. Essays by leading scholars provide not only new theoretical and methodological approaches, but also illuminating case studies and discussions of the comparative process itself, deepening and expanding our understanding of world cinemas in a revised frame of film history. World Cinemas, TransnationalPerspectivesrepresents the very best in film scholarship today."--Patrice Petro, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, author of Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History "This splendid book investigates the ways in which cinema operates internationally and interconnectedly. Durovicovi and Newman (both, Univ. of Iowa) argue that in the current era of globalization, studying particular national cinemas, particular genres, or narrowly focused theories in isolation no longer makes sense. The volume includes essays on international financing and production, worldwide distribution, audience reception, the interpretation of genres and styles (think kung-fu goes to Bollywood--or to Bulawayo), and the hybridization of theory. This reviewer especially admired Paul Willemans "Fantasy in Action." Many of these essays open new avenues of investigation that will keep scholars busy for a generation. Summing up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. --W.A. Vincent,Michigan State University Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking. "This ambitious and intellectually engaging volume succeeds in its aim to rethink the geopolitical imaginary of film studies as a discipline, by reconsidering film historiography beyond the nation-state and focusing instead on a variety of transnational formations. Essays by leading scholars provide not only new theoretical and methodological approaches, but also illuminating case studies and discussions of the comparative process itself, deepening and expanding our understanding of world cinemas in a revised frame of film history. World Cinemas, TransnationalPerspectivesrepresents the very best in film scholarship today."--Patrice Petro, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, author of Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History "This splendid book investigates the ways in which cinema operates internationally and interconnectedly. Durovicovi and Newman (both, Univ. of Iowa) argue that in the current era of globalization, studying particular national cinemas, particular genres, or narrowly focused theories in isolation no longer makes sense. The volume includes essays on international financing and production, worldwide distribution, audience reception, the interpretation of genres and styles (think kung-fu goes to Bollywood--or to Bulawayo), and the hybridization of theory. This reviewer especially admired Paul Willemans "Fantasy in Action." Many of these essays open new avenues of investigation that will keep scholars busy for a generation. Summing up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. --W.A. Vincent,Michigan State University ectedly. Durovicovi and Newman (both, Univ. of Iowa) argue that in the current era of globalization, studying particular national cinemas, particular genres, or narrowly focused theories in isolation no longer makes sense. The volume includes essays on international financing and production, worldwide distribution, audience reception, the interpretation of genres and styles (think kung-fu goes to Bollywood--or to Bulawayo), and the hybridization of theory. This reviewer especially admired Paul Willemans "Fantasy in Action." Many of these essays open new avenues of investigation that will keep scholars busy for a generation. Summing up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. --W.A. Vincent,Michigan State University Details ISBN0415976545 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series AFI Film Readers ISBN-10 0415976545 ISBN-13 9780415976541 Format Paperback Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Nataša Durovicová DEWEY 791.43 Edition 1st Media Book Language English Short Title WORLD CINEMAS TRANSNATIONAL PE Pages 366 DOI 10.1604/9780415976541 Year 2009 Publication Date 2009-09-01 AU Release Date 2009-09-01 NZ Release Date 2009-09-01 UK Release Date 2009-09-01 Illustrations 1 Tables, black and white Author Kathleen E. Newman Alternative 9780415976534 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:117220114;

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