Transnational Cinema, The Film Reader (In Focus: Routledge Film Readers)

ISBN 10: 0415371589 / ISBN 13: 9780415371582

Published by Routledge, 2005

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An overview of the key concepts and debates within the developing field of transnational cinema. This work engages with films that fashion their narrative and aesthetic dynamics in relation to more than one national or cultural community. It is useful for film studies students as a reference for their transnational cinema needs. Editor(s): Ezra, Elizabeth; Rowden, Terry. Series: In Focus: Routledge Film Readers. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 b/w halftones. BIC Classification: APF; GT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 352. . 2005. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transnational Cinema, The Film Reader (In Focus: Routledge Film Readers)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415371589
• ISBN 13: 9780415371582
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.