World cinemas, transnational perspectives

Nataša Ďurovičová, Kathleen Newman

Taylor & Francis, 2010 - Performing Arts - 368 pages

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.

Contents

• preface: 10
• acknowledgments xvi: 17
• on the plurality of cinematic transnationalism 12: 22
• tracking global media in the outposts: 12
• the flows and phases: 8
• towards a history: 1924

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 del dicurso: elestado autoritario y la novella politica argentina. Her current book project, Agentine Silent Film: 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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: World cinemas, transnational perspectives; Afi Film Readers
• Editors: Nataša Ďurovičová, Kathleen Newman
• Contributor: Kathleen Newman
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2010
• ISBN: 0415976545, 9780415976541
• Length: 368 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Film & Video / General; Political Science / General