Transnational Feminism in Film and Media

by Marciniak, Katarzyna; Imre, Anikó; O'Healy, Áine

• ISBN13: 9781403983701
• ISBN10: 1403983704
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines current cinematic and media landscapes from the perspective of transnational feminist practices and methodologies. Focusing on film, media art, and video essays, the contributors chart innovative strategies for exploring contemporary visual cultures. They offer critical interactions that include often neglected voices addressing the post-socialist Second World. They bring together two critical frameworks: transnational feminist studies and transcultural media.

Author Biography

Katarzyna Marciniak is Associate Professor of Transnational Studies in the English Department at Ohio University. Her current research focuses on the notion of “immigrant rage” in relation to feminist theory, migration studies, and global visual cultures. She is the author of Alienhood: Citizenship, Exile, and the Logic of Difference (2006). Anikó Imre is Assistant Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts of the University of Southern California. Her recent work revolves around globalization and post-communist media cultures in a comparative perspective. She is editor of East European Cinemas (2005). Áine O’Healy is Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Author of numerous articles and book chapters on contemporary Italian literature, film and cultural studies, she is currently completing a book on national identity, sexual difference, and discourses of the transnational in contemporary Italian cinema.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Series Editor's Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Notes on Contributors	p. xv
Introduction: Mapping Transnational Feminist Media Studies	p. 1
New Frontiers of Migration
Screening Unlivable Lives: The Cinema of Borders	p. 21
Border Traffic: Reimagining the Voyage to Italy	p. 37
Cinema without Frontiers: Transnational Women's Filmmaking in Iran and Turkey	p. 53
Refusal of Reproduction: Paradoxes of Becoming-Woman in Transnational Moroccan Filmmaking	p. 71
"Enter Freely, and of Your Own Will": Cinematic Representations of Post-Socialist Transnational Journeys	p. 93
Circulation of Bodies
Women's Resistance Strategies in a High-Tech Multicultural Europe	p. 111
Videographies of Navigating Geobodies	p. 129
"Affective Nationalism" and Transnational Postcommunist Lesbian Visual Activism	p. 147
Long-Legged Girls and the Transnational Circuits of Vietnamese Popular Culture	p. 163
Modalities of Foreignness
Palatable Foreignness	p. 187
Translating Silences: A Cinematic Encounter with Incommensurable Difference	p. 207
The Abjection of Patriarchy: Ibolya Fekete's Chico and the Transnational Feminist Imaginary	p. 227
Index	p. 241
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