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ML3207 Transnationalism, Diaspora and Globalization in Contemporary Film
Terms 1-2
Convenor: Dr Fabrizio De Donno
Assessment:
Formative piece (0%); Essay 1: 30%, 2,000-2,500 words; Essay 2: 60%, 2,500-3,000 words
Online (Moodle) Test: 10%
Overview
This course explores cinematic representations of the transnational encounter between people, cultures and institutions interconnected by the forces of globalization. The topics covered range from (anti-)colonialism and revolution to neo-colonialism, postcoloniality and migration. Attention is paid to the ways in which the films deal with the themes of emancipation, hybridity, displacement, global capitalism and politics, and cosmopolitanism. The course covers the development of transnational cinema from its origins with Third Cinema and then goes on to explore postcolonial and migration cinema covering areas ranging from South America and Africa to Europe.
Sample Filmography:
Maranahão 66 (Brazil, 1966), dir. Glauber Rocha
Terra em Transe (Land In Anguish, Brazil, 1967), dir. Glauber Rocha
Borom Sarret (The Waggoner, Senegal, 1963), dir. Ousmane Sembene
Xala (Senegal, 1974), dir. Ousmane Sembene
Guelwaar (Senegal, 1993), dir. O. Sembene
Bamako (Mali/France, 2006), dir. Abderrahmane Sissako
Once You Are Born You Can No Longer Hide (Italy/France, 2005), dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
Shun Li & The Poet (Italy, 2011), dir. Andrea Segre
Secondary Literature: General, Theoretical and Introductory
Durovicova, N. and Newman, K., eds., World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2009)
Ezra, E. and Rowden, T., eds., Transnational Cinema: The Film Reader (London and New York: Routledge, 2006)
Iordanova, D., Martin-Jones, D. and Vidal, B., eds., Cinema at the Periphery (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010).
Loshitzky, Yosepha Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010)
Maty Ba, Saer and Higbee, Will, eds., De-Westernizing Film Studies (London: Routledge, 2012)
Naficy, Hamid, An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001)
Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey, ed., The Oxford History of World Cinema (Oxford: OUP, 1996)
Ponzanesi, S. and Waller, M., eds., Postcolonial Cinema Studies (London: Routledge, 2011)