ABSTRACT
This collection of essays offers a pioneering analysis of the political and conceptual complexities of teaching transnational cinema in university classrooms around the world. In their exploration of a wide range of films from different national and regional contexts, contributors reflect on the practical and pedagogical challenges of teaching about immigrant identities, transnational encounters, foreignness, cosmopolitanism and citizenship, terrorism, border politics, legality and race. Probing the value of cinema in interdisciplinary academic study and the changing strategies and philosophies of teaching in the university, this volume positions itself at the cutting edge of transnational film studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part one|79 pages
Seeing “the world” through film
chapter three|18 pages
Understanding context, resisting hermeneutics
part two|99 pages
Transnational encounters
chapter six|16 pages
Transnational lesbian cinema in the women's and gender studies classroom
chapter eight|22 pages
Facilitating student engagement
chapter eleven|15 pages
“Grateful to be an american”
part three|73 pages
Transnational aporias