Footnote #69 - Transnational Cinemas
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Chris and Alex take on transnational cinemas in this brand new Footnote episode of the podcast, thinking through the mobility of - and interactions between - films and filmmakers across national borders and what it means for cinema to ‘travel.’ Topics include the national/transnational relation, and how new kinds of interconnectedness between nation-states are powered by globalisation; how we might understand the cross-cultural production and distribution of films as transcending national boundaries; the role of personal histories in how films represent diasporic experiences through images of migration; and how scholars have grappled with cinemas and individual filmmakers that appear to hold two national identities at once.
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Suggested Readings
De La Garza, Armida, Deborah Shaw, and Ruth Doughty, eds. 2024. Transnational Screens: Expanding the Borders of Transnational Cinema. London: Routledge.
Elsaesser, Thomas. 2005. European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Fan, Victor. 2019. Extraterritoriality: Locating Hong Kong Cinema and Media. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Naficy, Hamid. 2001. An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Shaw, Deborah. 2013. “Deconstructing and Reconstructing ‘Transnational Cinema’” in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema: Interrogating the Transnational in Spanish and Latin American Film, ed. Stephanie Dennison, 47-66. Tamesis: Woodbridge.