Marciniak Katarzyna - Teaching Transnational Cinema: Politics and Pedagogy

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.

Katarzyna Marciniak is Professor of Transnational Studies in the English Department at Ohio University, USA. She is the author of Alienhood: Citizenship, Exile, and the Logic of Difference, Streets of Crocodiles: Photography, Media, and Postsocialist Landscapes in Poland, co-editor of Transnational Feminism in Film and Media and, with Imogen Tyler, Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent.

Bruce Bennett is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom: Borders, Intimacy, Terror, and co-editor of Cinema and Technology: Cultures, Theories, Practices.

Previously published in the AFI Film Readers series

Edited by Edward Branigan and Charles Wolfe

Psychoanalysis and Cinema

E. Ann Kaplan

Fabrications: Costume and the Female Body

Jane Gaines and Charlotte Herzog

Sound Theory/ Sound Practice

Rick Altman

Film Theory Goes to the Movies

Jim Collins, Ava Preacher Collins, and Hilary Radner

Theorizing Documentary

Michael Renov

Black American Cinema

Manthia Diawara

Disney Discourse

Eric Smoodin

Classical Hollywood Comedy

Henry Jenkins and Kristine Brunovska Karnick

The Persistence of History

Vivian Sobchack

The Revolution Wasnt Televised

Lynn Spigel and Michael Curtin

Black Women Film and Video Artists

Jacqueline Bobo

Home, Exile, Homeland

Hamid Naficy

Violence and American Cinema

J. David Slocum

Masculinity

Peter Lehman

Westerns

Janet Walker

Authorship and Film

David A. Gerstner and Janet Staiger

New Media

Anna Everett and John T. Caldwell

East European Cinemas

Anik Imre

Landscape and Film

Martin Lefebvre

European Film Theory

Trifonova Temenuga

Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies

Warren Buckland

World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives

Nataa uroviov and Kathleen Newman

Documentary Testimonies

Bhaskar Sarkar and Janet Walker

Slapstick Comedy

Rob King and Tom Paulus

The Epic Film in World Culture

Robert Burgoyne

Arnheim for Film and Media Studies

Scott Higgins

Color and the Moving Image

Simon Brown, Sarah Street, and Liz Watkins

Ecocinema Theory and Practice

Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, and Sean Cubitt

Media Authorship

Cynthia Chris and David A. Gerstner

Pervasive Animation

Suzanne Buchan

The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture

Tom Brown and Beln Vidal

Cognitive Media Theory

Ted Nannicelli and Paul Taberham

Hollywood Puzzle Films

Warren Buckland

Endangering Science Fiction Film

Sean Redmond and Leon Marvell

New Silent Cinema

Paul Flaig and Katherine Groo

Edited By

Katarzyna Marciniak and Bruce Bennett

First published 2016

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Marciniak, Katarzyna, 1963 editor. | Bennett, Bruce,
1970 editor.
Title: Teaching transnational cinema : politics and
pedagogy / [edited] by Katarzyna Marciniak and Bruce Bennett.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2016. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015037394 | ISBN 9781138928435 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781315681733 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Motion picturesSocial aspects. | Motion pictures
Political aspects. | Motion pictures in education.
Classification: LCC PN1995.9.S6 T395 2016 | DDC 302.23/43dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015037394

ISBN: 978-1-138-92843-5 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-68173-3 (ebk)

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katarzyna marciniak and bruce bennett

part one
seeing the world through film

bruce bennett

alex lykidis

matthew holtmeier and chelsea wessels

ruth doughty and deborah shaw

david martin-jones

part two
transnational encounters

rachel lewis

anita wen-shin chang

mette hjort

laurence raw

bhaskar sarkar

ine ohealy

part three
transnational aporias

neda atanasoski

aga skrodzka

terri ginsberg and tania kamal-eldin

katarzyna marciniak

bruce bennett and katarzyna marciniak

Our foremost gratitude goes to Edward Branigan and Chuck Wolfe, the Editors of the AFI Film Readers Series, who strongly supported this project from its inception. Their faith in the importance of a book of this kind guided our efforts throughout the many stages of preparing the manuscript. Our editor at Routledge, Simon Jacobs, has offered a patient and professionally sound guidance and we are grateful for his assistance.

Our contributors have been incredible collaborators; we thank them for their willingness to share with us their ideas and various areas of expertise all the while focusing on the values of pedagogical commitments, innovations, and contingencies we variously experience as teachers of transnational cinemas. It has been an exciting opportunity for us to work with scholars positioned in various parts of the world and representing many cultures, languages, and contexts. Ours has been a cross-cultural collaboration and the diversity of our contributors distinct voices greatly enhances the value of a book whose goal is to consider linkages between cinematic texts and our pedagogical practices.