Global Cinema Networks investigates the evolving aesthetic forms, technological and industrial conditions, and social impacts of cinema in the twenty-first century. The collection’s esteemed contributors excavate sites of global filmmaking in an era of digital reproduction and amidst new modes of circulation and aesthetic convergence, focusing primarily on recent films made across Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. Moving beyond the digital as a harbinger of transformation, the volume offers new ways of thinking about cinema networks in a historical continuum, from “international” to “world” to “transnational” to “global” frames.
“Assembling an impressive group of internationally recognized scholars, this ambitious volume offers a sustained engagement with cultural infrastructures like film festivals, visual motifs of the global, with a capaciousness that stretches global cinema across a century.”
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Global Cinemas in a Time of Networks Elena Gorfinkel, King’s College London (U.K.)
Part 1: Cartographies, Geopolitics, Aesthetics
Chapter 2: Beyond and Beneath the Map of World Cinema Dudley Andrew, Yale University
Chapter 3: Frame Adrian Martin, Monash University (Australia)
Chapter 4: Abstraction and the Geopolitical: Lessons from Antonioni’s Trip to China John David Rhodes, University of Cambridge
Chapter 5: The City of Bits and Urban Rule: Media Archaeology, Urban Space, and Contemporary Chinese Documentary James Tweedie, University of Washington
Part 2: Global Ideality, History, Representation
Chapter 6: Toward an Archeology of Global Rhythms: Melodie der Welt (Melody of the World, 1929) and its Reception in France Laurent Guido, University of Lille (France)
Chapter 7: When Cinema was Humanism Karl Schoonover, University of Warwick
Chapter 8: African Cinema: Digital Media and Expanding Frames of Representation N. Frank Ukadike, Tulane University, New Orleans
Chapter 9: Changing Circumstances: Global Flows of Lesbian Cinema Patricia White, Swarthmore College
Part 3: Kinships, Identifications, Genres
Chapter 10: Hermano and La hora cero: Violence and Transgressive Subjectivities in Venezuelan Youth Cinema Luisela Alvaray, DePaul University
Chapter 11: Between Love and the Moral Law: The Fatal Mother in Park Chan-wook’s Sympathy for Lady Vengeance Peter Y. Paik, Yonsei University (Korea)
Chapter 12: The Queer Mexican Cinema of Julián Hernández Gilberto M. Blasini, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Chapter 13: The Gangster Film as World Cinema Jian Xu, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Chapter 14: Epilogue: 24 Frames: Regarding the Past and Future of Global Cinema Tami Williams, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
ELENA GORFINKEL is senior lecturer in film studies at King’s College London in the United Kingdom. She is the author of Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s.
TAMI M. WILLIAMS is an associate professor of English and film studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations.
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