ABSTRACT
Some schools, such as New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, or the British Film School in London, are transnational less due to explicit vocation than intention by virtue of their cosmopolitan students and location in highly international world cities. In scholar Zoe Graham’s thoroughly researched and insightful look into transnational film schools, she defines some key properties common, in varying degrees, to transnational training institutions: a multi-country focus; flexible practices, and a border-crossing pedagogy. Graham traces the social, historical, economic, ethical and aesthetic dimensions of film schools within an emergent discourse on transnational media pedagogy. By bringing a Freire-inspired pedagogical lens to the analysis of transnational cinema, Graham multiplies connectivities across disciplines and links film theory to social activism. A transnational frame reveals collaborations and exchanges between various filmmakers and movements. Teaching Transnational Pedagogy is rich in suggestively didactic concepts such as the “pedagogy of discomfort”, the “pedagogy of humility,” and the “Pedagogy of the Practical”.
