Global Cinema Networks

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 *

ELENA GORFINKEL is senior lecturer in film studies at Kings 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 Contents Chapter 1: Introduction: Global Cinemas in a Time of Networks Elena Gorfinkel, Kings College London (U.K.) Part 1: Cartographies, Geopolitics, Aesthetics Chapter 2: Beyond and Beneath the Map of World Cinema Dudley Andrew, Yale University Chapter 3: Frame Adrian Martin, Monash University (Australia) Chapter 4: Abstraction and the Geopolitical: Lessons from Antonionis Trip to China John David Rhodes, University of Cambridge Chapter 5: The City of Bits and Urban Rule: Media Archaeology, Urban Space, and Contemporary Chinese Documentary James Tweedie, University of Washington Part 2: Global Ideality, History, Representation Chapter 6: Toward an Archeology of Global Rhythms: Melodie der Welt (Melody of the World, 1929) and its Reception in France Laurent Guido, University of Lille (France) Chapter 7: When Cinema was Humanism Karl Schoonover, University of Warwick Chapter 8: African Cinema: Digital Media and Expanding Frames of Representation N. Frank Ukadike, Tulane University, New Orleans Chapter 9: Changing Circumstances: Global Flows of Lesbian Cinema Patricia White, Swarthmore College Part 3: Kinships, Identifications, Genres Chapter 10: Hermano and La hora cero: Violence and Transgressive Subjectivities in Venezuelan Youth Cinema Luisela Alvaray, DePaul University Chapter 11: Between Love and the Moral Law: The Fatal Mother in Park Chan-wooks Sympathy for Lady Vengeance Peter Y. Paik, Yonsei University (Korea) Chapter 12: The Queer Mexican Cinema of Julin Hernndez Gilberto M. Blasini, University of WisconsinMilwaukee Chapter 13: The Gangster Film as World Cinema Jian Xu, University of WisconsinMilwaukee Chapter 14: Epilogue: 24 Frames: Regarding the Past and Future of Global Cinema Tami Williams, University of WisconsinMilwaukee