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Transnational and diasporic cinema from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199791286Although from the earliest years film production, marketing, and reception involved extensive national border crossing, the rubric “transnational cinema” has emerged only comparatively recently. Taken up from other disciplines such as anthropology and migration and postcolonial studies, the concept of “transnational” in this still-emerging area of cinema studies remains highly varied, pointing to sometimes contested working definitions and analytic approaches.
Transnational corporations from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199874002Transnational corporations are the focus of much popular and academic interest due to their role in globalization and the significant increase both in the size of firms and their scope since the early 1970s. TNCs are key players in the acceleration of processes of globalization, and their activities are both celebrated and deplored. ...
Introduction to transnational and diasporic cinema
Films and cinemas that transcend national boundaries and/or fashion their narrative and aesthetic strategies with reference to more than one national or cultural tradition or community. The idea of the transnational alludes to the forces that link people and institutions across nations: the global circulation of money, commodities, information, and people, for example. Transnational cinema is part of this broader nexus of forces, which take in not only Hollywood's domination of world film markets but also the huge global surge in circulation of films consequent upon the availability delivery technologies such as video and DVD: one of the undoubted consequences of these developments is a rise in cineliteracy among audiences around the the world. The term transnational entered film studies in the mid to late 1990s, having previously enjoyed currency in studies of globalization in mass media and communications. At this point it denoted the internationalization of production capital and audiences across a limited set of national cinemas, namely those of the Chinese nations: Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the People's Republic (see asian epic cinema). ...
Kuhn, A., & Westwell, G. (2012). Transnational cinema. In A Dictionary of Film Studies. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 13 Oct. 2020
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Far-flung families in film: the diasporic family in contemporary European cinema by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780748677856In the age of globalisation, diasporic and other types of transnational family are increasingly represented across the film spectrum in works such as Bend It Like Beckham, The Namesake, Boys 'n the Hood, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (The Brave Heart Will Take the Bride) and My Big Fat Greek Wedding. While there is a significant body of scholarship on the representation of the family in Hollywood cinema, an analysis of the depiction of the diasporic family in cinema from a comparative transnational angle has yet to be attempted. This book fills this gap and provides an essential resource for academics and researchers with an interest in cinematic representations of the family and transnational cinema. ...
Global melodrama: nation, body, and history in contemporary film by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .M45 M38 2015ISBN: 9781137530615Global Melodrama is the first book to investigate melodrama in a specifically twenty-first century setting across regional and national boundaries, analyzing film texts from a variety of national contexts in the wake of globalization.
Intermingled fascinations: migration, displacement, and translation in world cinema by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781443829540This collection of essays seeks to expand and refine the study of Sinophone and Franco-Japanese transnational cinema. Chapter by chapter, each author writes about two or three transnational films (and the characters within those films) that highlight issues related to migration, exile, and imprisonment. ...
Transnational film remakes by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .R45 T83 2017ISBN: 9781474407243What happens when a film is remade in another national context? How do notions of translation, adaptation and localisation help us understand the cultural dynamics of these shifts, and in what ways does a transnational perspective offer us a deeper understanding of film remaking? Bringing together a range of international scholars, Transnational Film Remakes is the first edited collection to specifically focus on the phenomenon of cross-cultural remakes. ...
World cinemas, transnational perspectives by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780415976541The 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. ...
Selected book title(s)
American-Australian cinema: transnational connections by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .N37 A44 2018ISBN: 9783319666754This collection assesses the complex historical and contemporary relationships between US and Australian cinema by tapping directly into discussions of national cinema, transnationalism and global Hollywood. While most equivalent studies aim to define national cinema as independent from or in competition with Hollywood, this collection explores a more porous set of relationships through the varied production, distribution and exhibition associations between Australia and the US. ...
Contemporary cinema of Africa and the diaspora by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781118588680Analyzing art house films from the African continent and the African diaspora, this book showcases a new generation of auteurs with African origins from political, aesthetic, and spectatorship perspectives. ...
Contemporary Hispanic cinema: interrogating the transnational in Spanish and Latin American film by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781855662612This book focuses on the cross-currents and points of contact in film production among so-called Hispanic countries (Spain, Portugal and Latin America), and in particular the impact that co-production and supranational funding initiatives are having on both the film industries and the films of Latin America in the twenty-first century. Together with chapters that discuss and further develop transnational approaches to reading films in the Hispanic and Latin American context, the volume includes chapters that focus on funding initiatives, such as IBERMEDIA, that are aimed at Spain, Portugal and Latin America. ...
Diaspora literature and visual culture: Asia in flight by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780203840771This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma's engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century. ...
Finnish cinema: a transnational enterprise by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .F5 F56 2016ISBN: 9781137576507This book presents an expert analysis of the transnational aspects of Finnish cinema throughout its history. As a small nation cinema, Finnish film culture has, even at its most nationalistic, always been attached to developments in other film producing nations in terms of production and distribution as well as genres and aesthetics.
Superheroes on world screens by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781628462340Superheroes such as Superman and Spider-Man have spread all over the world. As this edited volume shows, many national cultures have created or re-imagined the idea of the superhero, while the realm of superheroes now contains many icons whose histories borrow from local folklore and legends. Consequently, the superhero needs reconsideration, to be regarded as part of both local and global culture as well as examined for the rich meanings that such broad origins and re-workings create.
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You can find articles about transnational cinema in many publications. You can search in an index such as Film & Television Literature Index or FIAF, the International Index to Film Periodicals. You can also search using the box at the top of the page.
Diaspora: a journal of transnational studiesCall Number: Electronic journalDiaspora is dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the history, culture, social structure, politics and economics of both the traditional diasporas – Armenian, Greek, and Jewish – and those transnational dispersions which in the past three decades have chosen to identify themselves as ‘diasporas.’
Transnational screensCall Number: Electronic journal (We do not have a subscription)Transnational Screens has emerged in response to a shift in global film, television and streaming and how we understand dynamic new industrial and textual practices. Transnational Screens aims to break down traditional geographical divisions and welcomes submissions on any aspect of transnational film, television, streaming culture, and screen media practices.
FIAF: international index to film periodicalsCall Number: Electronic resourceThe International Index to Film Periodicals, offers in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals from 1972 to the present.
Film & television literature indexCall Number: Electronic resourceThis index covers over 300 journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television. About half the journals and magazines are film periodicals and the other half cover film and television with some regularity. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
Screen studies collection by Call Number: Electronic resourceA comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed filmographies. This collection includes the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute (AFI) and the British Film Institute.
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