Global Cinema Networks

ELENA GORFINKEL is senior lecturer in film studies at King’s College London in the United Kingdom. She is the author of Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s.TAMI M. WILLIAMS is an associate professor of English and film studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations.

• Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Global Cinemas in a Time of NetworksElena Gorfinkel, King’s College London (U.K.)Part 1: Cartographies, Geopolitics, AestheticsChapter 2: Beyond and Beneath the Map of World CinemaDudley Andrew, Yale UniversityChapter 3: FrameAdrian Martin, Monash University (Australia)Chapter 4: Abstraction and the Geopolitical: Lessons from Antonioni’s Trip to ChinaJohn David Rhodes, University of CambridgeChapter 5: The City of Bits and Urban Rule: Media Archaeology, Urban Space, and Contemporary Chinese DocumentaryJames Tweedie, University of WashingtonPart 2: Global Ideality, History, RepresentationChapter 6: Toward an Archeology of Global Rhythms: Melodie der Welt (Melody of the World, 1929) and its Reception in FranceLaurent Guido, University of Lille (France)Chapter 7: When Cinema was HumanismKarl Schoonover, University of WarwickChapter 8: African Cinema: Digital Media and Expanding Frames of RepresentationN. Frank Ukadike, Tulane University, New OrleansChapter 9: Changing Circumstances: Global Flows of Lesbian CinemaPatricia White, Swarthmore CollegePart 3: Kinships, Identifications, GenresChapter 10: Hermano and La hora cero: Violence and Transgressive Subjectivities in Venezuelan Youth CinemaLuisela Alvaray, DePaul UniversityChapter 11: Between Love and the Moral Law: The Fatal Mother in Park Chan-wook’s Sympathy for Lady VengeancePeter Y. Paik, Yonsei University (Korea)Chapter 12: The Queer Mexican Cinema of JuliÁn HernÁndezGilberto M. Blasini, University of Wisconsin–MilwaukeeChapter 13: The Gangster Film as World CinemaJian Xu, University of Wisconsin–MilwaukeeChapter 14: Epilogue: 24 Frames: Regarding the Past and Future of Global CinemaTami Williams, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

“Assembling an impressive group of internationally recognized scholars, this ambitious volume offers a sustained engagement with cultural infrastructures like film festivals, visual motifs of the global, with a capaciousness that stretches global cinema across a century.”  - Nitin Govil (author of Orienting Hollywood: A Century of Film Culture between Los Angeles and Bombay)