Introduction : Global Cinemas in a Time of Networks / Elena Gorfinkel -- Part I. Cartographies, Geopolitics, Aesthetics. Beyond and Beneath the Map of World Cinema / Dudley Andrew -- Frame / Adrian Martin -- Abstraction and the Geopolitical : Lessons from Antonioni's Trip to China / John David Rhodes -- The City of Bits and Urban Rule : Media Archaeology, Urban Space, and Contemporary Chinese Documentary / James Tweedie -- Part II. Global Ideality, History, Representation. Toward an Archeology of Global Rhythms : Melodie der Welt and its Reception in France / Laurent Guido -- When Cinema was Humanism / Karl Schoonover -- African Cinema : Digital Media and Expanding Frames of Representation / N. Frank Ukadike -- Changing Circumstances : Global Flows of Lesbian Cinema / Patricia White -- Part III. Kinships, Identifications, Genres. Hermano and La hora cero : Violence and Transgressive Subjectivities in Venezuelan Youth Cinema / Luisela Alvaray -- Between Love and the Moral Law : The Fatal Mother in Park Chan-wook's Lady Vengeance / Peter Y. Paik -- The Queer Mexican Cinema of Julián Hernández / Gilberto M. Blasini -- The Gangster Film as World Cinema / Jian Xu -- Epilogue: 24 Frames : Regarding the Past and Future of Global Cinema / Tami Williams.
Summary:
"Global Cinema Networks investigates the evolving aesthetic forms, technological and industrial conditions, and social impacts of cinema in the twenty-first century. The collection's esteemed contributors excavate sites of global filmmaking in an era of digital reproduction and amidst new modes of circulation and aesthetic convergence, focusing primarily on recent films made across Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. Moving beyond the digital as a harbinger of transformation, the volume offers new ways of thinking about cinema networks in a historical continuum, from "international" to "world" to "transnational" to "global" frameworks."-- Provided by publisher.
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