Research Catalog

Title

World literature, transnational cinema, and global media : towards a transartistic commons / Robert Stam.

Author

Stam, Robert, 1941-

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Description

x, 275 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"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 add to the existing scholarship, the book builds a relational framework through the connectivities within literature, cinema and media that opens up analysis to new categories and concepts, whilst 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"--

Subject

• Literature and transnationalism
• Motion pictures and transnationalism
• Mass media and globalization

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [240]-259) and index.

Contents

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 literature-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-history -- 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 -- Minor cinema, the indigene, and the state -- The rise of the "woods" : from Hollywood to Nollywood via Bollywood -- Globalization, political economy, and the media -- Acquatic tropologies -- Technologies of intermedial flow -- Globalization : 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.

Call Number

JFE 19-6290

ISBN

• 9781138369573
• 1138369578
• 9781138369597
• 1138369594

LCCN

2018039396

OCLC

1049298416

Author

Stam, Robert, 1941- author.

Title

World literature, transnational cinema, and global media : towards a transartistic commons / Robert Stam.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [240]-259) and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Stam, Robert, 1941- author. World literature, transnational cinema, and global media London ; New York : Routledge, 2019 9780429428579 (DLC) 2019000675

Research Call Number

JFE 19-6290