Transnational Screens

Dr Armida de la Garza is Senior Lecturer in Digital Arts and Humanities at University College Cork, Ireland. She is interested in research on internationalisation in higher education; on Screen Media and their relation to culture, industry and education; and on collaborative, interdisciplinary research that bridges the gap between science and the arts. Deborah Shaw is Professor of Film and Screen Studies at the University of Portsmouth. Her research interests include transnational film theory, Latin American cinema, and film and migration, and she has published widely in these areas. Dr Ruth Doughty is the Programme Leader for Film Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. She is the co-author of Understanding Film Theory (2017). Ruth is the Principal Investigator on a Lottery Funded project looking at the history of Littlewoods in Liverpool. Armida, Deborah, and Ruth are the co-founding editors of Transnational Cinemas, now Transnational Screens.

Introduction: From transnational cinemas to transnational screens 1. Concepts of transnational cinema revisited 2. Transnational turn or turn to world cinema? 3. Performing cosmopolitanism: Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke in Richard Linklater’s ‘before’ trilogy 4. ‘The past is a foreign country’: exoticism and nostalgia in contemporary transnational cinema 5. The ontological transnationalism of the filmmaker: solidarity-based talent development across borders 6. Moroccan diasporic cinema: the ‘rooted transnationalism’ of the cinéastes de passage 7. Close encounters with foreignness 8. Eco-critique as transnational commons 9. Second phase transnationalism: reflections on launching the SCMS transnational cinemas scholarly interest group