Theorizing Cinema's Multiple Globalizations

1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-14981-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

This groundbreaking collection examines various manifestations of globalization in cinema, challenging the notion of its decline by examining how films across continents capture, resist, and reimagine our interconnected world through multiple theoretical lenses and regional perspectives.

Theorizing Cinema’s Multiple Globalizations explores a plenitude of entanglements with globalization and deglobalization in films that actualize them: through a village trial of the World Bank in Mali, linguistic play in Nigeria, class and gender issues in Turkey and Saudi Arabia, transnational crime in Australia, anime coproductions between Japan and India, deglobalization in Romania and Hungry, big world global cinema from Tollywood, indigeneity in Polar communities, new global science fiction in South Korea, issues of environmentalism in Brazil, and depictions of waning American empire. Careful never to conceive world cinema as civilization in bulk, the book deploys multiple globalizations and deglobalization not as aberrations of each other but rather as interconnected concepts that share in the capabilities to mine and intuit a multitude of micro, meso, and macro potentialities.

This book is written for advanced film studies scholars, graduate students, and researchers working at the intersection of cinema and globalization theory. It will be particularly relevant for upper-level courses in world cinema, global media studies, and comparative cultural studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wagner, Keith B.

Jeong, Seung-hoon

Mazaj, Meta

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Theorizing Multiple Globalizations: Neoliberal Globalization, Cultural Globalization and Deglobalization in World Cinema and Global Cinema

Keith B. Wagner, Seung-hoon Jeong, Meta Mazaj

Neoliberal Globalization

Chapter 1
The Wageless Life of the Subaltern: The World Bank and Critiquing structural adjustment in Abderrahmane Sissako’s Bamako (2006)
Stephen Morton

Chapter 2
The disappearance of the working-class hero in the New Independent Turkish Cinema: globalization and the politics of festivalism
Asli Daldal

Chapter 3
Hearing “Unexceptional” Women amidst Overlapping Globalizations and Feminisms in Haifaa Al-Mansour’s Saudi Films
Dale Hudson

Chapter 4
Neoliberal and Cultural Globalization of Contemporary Australian Cinema: Criminal Networks, Gold Mines and Movie Stars in Son of a Gun (2014)
Tommaso Durante

Chapter 5
Age of Extinction and Wolf Warrior 2: Projecting the Asian Century in Chinese Cinema
Maria Bose

Cultural Globalization

Chapter 6
Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama: The pioneering case of a trans-Asian anime film co-production and its globalization
Ryotaro Mihara

Chapter 7
Trash (2014) and the garbage aesthetic from Brazil
Stephanie Dennison

Chapter 8
Nationalism from Below: State Failures, Nollywood, and Nigerian Pidgin
Jonathan Haynes

Chapter 9
Confronting Ideologies in Contemporary Eastern European Cinema
Veronika Hermann

Chapter 10
Arctic and Sámi Truth and Reconciliation Cinemas in a Global Context
Anna Westerstahl Stenport, Scott MacKenzie

Deglobalization

Chapter 11
Hollywood’s Refraction of a New Cold War: ‘Smart’ Tactics in Blockbuster Adaptation and Sequelization
Seung-hoon Jeong

Chapter 12
Nationalist Ideologies in the Time of Transnational Cinema: On the Double Life of S.S. Rajamouli’s RRR (2022) between India and the World
Nisarg Patel

Chapter 13

Astroculture and Cosmetic Multiculturalism in Space Sweepers (2021): Advancing Global Science Fiction and Deglobalization in South Korean Cinema
Keith B. Wagner, Michael A. Unger, Cristiane Melchior, Hannele Seeck

Chapter 14

Deglobalization and Audacious Form in Radu Jude’s Bad Luck Banging or Looney Porn (2021) and Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (2023)
Meta Mazaj

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Keith B. Wagner is an Affiliated Researcher at LUT University in Lappeenranta, Finland and the University of the Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan. He is the co-editor of five edited collections, of note Fredric Jameson and Film Theory: Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema (2022) and Global London on Screen: Visitors, Cosmopolitans and Migratory Visions of a Superdiverse City (2023).

Seung-hoon Jeong is an Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts at California State University, Long Beach. He is the author of Cinematic Interfaces: Film Theory After New Media (2013) and Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema (2023). He also co-edited The Global Auteur: The Politics of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema (2016) and Thomas Elsaesser’s posthumous book The Mind-Game Film: Distributed Agency, Time Travel, and Productive Pathology (2021).

Meta Mazaj is a Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has published on critical theory, Balkan cinema, new European cinema, and contemporary world cinema. She is the author of National and Cynicism in Post 1990s Balkan Cinema (2008), co-author, with Timothy Corrigan and Patricia White, of Critical Visions in Film Theory: Classic and Contemporary Readings (2011), and co-author, with Shekhar Deshpande, of World Cinema: A Critical Introduction (2018).