World Literature, Transnational Cinema, and Global Media

Towards a Transartistic Commons
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-36959-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 442 g

With extraordinary transnational and transdisciplinary range, World Literature, Transnational Cinema, and Global Media comprehensively explores the genealogies, vocabularies, and concepts orienting the fields within literature, cinema, and media studies.

Orchestrating a layered conversation between arts, disciplines, and media, Stam argues for their "mutual embeddedness" and their shared "in-between" territories. Rather than merely adding to the existing scholarship, the book builds a relational framework through the connectivities within literature, cinema, music, and media that opens up analysis to new categories and concepts, while crossing spatial, temporal, theoretical, disciplinary, and mediatic borders. The book also questions an array of hierarchies: literature over cinema; source novel over adaptation; feature film over documentary; erudite over vernacular culture; Western modernisms over "peripheral" modernisms; classical over popular music; written poetry over sung poetry, and so forth. The book is structured around the concept of the "commons," forming a strong thread which links various struggles against "enclosures" of all kinds, with emphasis on natural, indigenous, cultural, creative, digital, and the transdisciplinary commons.

World Literature, Transnational Cinema, and Global Media is ideal to further the theoretical discussion for those undergraduate and graduate departments in cinema studies, media studies, arts and art history, communications, journalism, and new digital media programs at all levels.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stam, Robert

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Terms of Debate

Goethe and Weltliteratur

The Theory of World Literature

From World Literature to Alternative Modernisms

The Cosmopolitanism of the Periphery

Columbus, El Nuevo Mundo, and Postcolonial Studies

French Postcoloniality and Litterature-Monde

Sibling Disciplines: Literary Studies and Cinema Studies

From Literature to Film: A Study in Ambivalence

The Cinema and the World Literature Canon

The Gains of (Film) Translation

Adaptation, Remix, and the Cultural Commons

From Adaptation to Remix

World Cinema: The Pre-Hisory

The Theory of World Cinema

World Music and the Commons

Transmedial Music in Latin America

The Transnational Turn

Transnational Cinema

The Coefficient of Transnationality

Transnational Reception, Gender, and Aesthetics

Transnational Film Schools and Pedagogy

The Rise of the "Woods": From Hollywood to Nollywood via Bollywood

Globalization, Political Economy, and the Media

Acquatic Tropologies

Technologies of Intermedial Flow

Globalization: The Mediatic Resistance

Transoceanic Currents: the Red, Black, and White Atlantic

Global Indigeneity and the Transnational Gaze

The Media’s "Deep Time" and the Planetary Commons

The Commons and the Globalized Citizen

Terminological Reflections

Toward a "Trans" Methodology

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Stam is University Professor at New York University. His books include François Truffaut and Friends; Literature through Film; Film Theory: An Introduction; and (with Ella Shohat) Unthinking Eurocentrism and Race in Translation. With work translated into sixteen languages, he has taught in France, Brazil, Tunisia, Germany, and the UAE.