Transnational Cinema, The Film Reader

Description

Transnational Cinema: The Film Reader provides an overview of the key concepts and debates within the developing field of transnational cinema.

Bringing together seminal essays from a wide range of sources, this volume engages with films that fashion their narrative and aesthetic dynamics in relation to more than one national or cultural community. The reader is divided into four sections:

• From National to Transnational Cinema
• Global Cinema in the Digital Age
• Motion Pictures: Film, Migration and Diaspora
• Tourists and Terrorists.

Contents

Introduction: What is Transnational Cinema? Introduction to Section 1: From National to Transnational Cinema. Introduction to Section 2: Global Cinema in the Digital Age. Introduction to Section 3: Motion Pictures: Film, Migration, and Diaspora. Introduction to Section 4: Tourists and Terrorists

Author Bio

Elizabeth Ezra teaches in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Stirling. She is the author of The Colonial Unconscious (2000) and George Méliès: The Birth of the Auteur (2000). Terry Rowden teaches in the Department of English at the College of Wooster. His essays and reviews have appeared in Southern Review, MELUS and College Literature.

Related Subjects

1. Race & Ethnicity
2. Film Theory
3. World Cinema
4. Post-Colonial Studies