Natasa Durovicová is Editor of 91st Meridian, the online journal of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Her scholarship has dealt with the shifting concept of national cinema as a historigraphic category and with the role of language, voice and sound during the interwar years. Her current project bears on translation as a strategy of cognitive mapping of world cinema flows. Most recently, she was Visiting Faculty Member (2003-5) at the MAGIS Spring School [Gardisca, Italy}.
Kathleen E. Newman is Associate Professor of Cinema and Spanish at the University of Iowa. Her research and teaching focuses on Latin American, Chicano, and Spanish cinemas as well as on theoretical question regarding the relation between fictional narrative and politics and the relation between cinema and globalization. She is the author of La violencia deldicurso: elestado autoritario y la novella politicaargentina. Her current book project, Agentine SilentFilm: Feminism, Democracy, and Modernity, is a study of the relation between silent film, early feminist movements and democratization in Argentina in the first three decades of the twentieth century.

Preface

Part One: The Geopolitical Imaginary of Cinema Studies

1. Transnational Film Theory: Decentered Subjectivity, Decentered Capitalism Kathleen Newman

2. On the Plurality of Cinematic Transnationalism Mette Hjort

3. Tracking "Global Media" in the Outposts of Globalization Bhaskar Sarkar

4. Time Zones and Jetlag: The Flows and Phases of World Cinema Dudley Andrew

5. Vector, Flow, Zone: Towards a History of Cinematic Translatio Nataša Durovicová

Part Two: Cinema as Transnational Exchange

6. Chinese Cinema and Transnational Film Studies Yingjin Zhang

7. A National Cinema Abroad: From Production to Viewing Toby Miller

8. Aural Identity, Genealogies of Sound Technologies, and Hispanic Transnationality on Screen Marvin D'Lugo

9. How Movies Move (Between Hong Kong and Bulawayo, Between Screen and Stage...) Lesley Stern

10. New Paradoxes of Africa's Cinemas Olivier Barlet

11. The Transnational Other: Street Kids in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema João Luiz Vieira

Part Three: Comparative Perspectives

12. Fantasy in Action Paul Willemen

13. Vernacular Modernism: Tracking Cinema on a Global Scale Miriam Hansen

14. Globalization and Hybridization Fredric Jameson

15. From Playtime to The World: The Expansion and Depletion of Space Within Global Economies Jonathan Rosenbaum

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SCMS Award Winner "Best Edited Collection"
The standard analytical category of "national cinema" has increasingly been called into question by the category of the "transnational." This anthology examines the premises and consequences of the coexistence of these two categories and the parameters of historiographical approaches that cross the borders of nation-states. The three sections of World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives cover the geopolitical imaginary, transnational cinematic institutions, and the uneven flow of words and images.