Transnational Cinema: An Introduction

Description

This core teaching text provides a thorough overview of the recently emerged field of transnational film studies. Covering a range of approaches to analysing films about migrant, cross-cultural and cross-border experience, Steven Rawle demonstrates how film production has moved beyond clear national boundaries to become a product of border crossing finance and creative personnel. This comprehensive introduction brings together the key concepts and theories of transnational cinema, including genre, remakes, diasporic and exilic cinema, and the limits of thinking about cinema as a particularly national cultural artefact. It is an excellent course companion for undergraduate students of film, cinema, media and cultural studies studying transnational and global cinema, and provides both students and lovers of film alike with a strong grounding in this timely field of film studies.

Steven Rawle is Associate Professor in Media Production and Film Studies at York St John University, UK. He is the author of Performance in in the Cinema of Hal Hartley (2011), co-author of The Language of Film (2015), and co-editor of Partners in Suspense: Critical Essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock (2016). His publications have appeared in multiple edited collections on topics including Takashi Miike films and Godzilla movies, and journals including the East Asian Journal of Popular Culture and Film Criticism

This very well-researched book provides a list of recommended viewing and study materials, which will be quite useful for someone trying to acquaint themselves with transnational cinema for the first time. * Sanghita Sen, Frames Cinema Journal *