Transcultural Images in Hollywood Cinema - Debates on Migration, Identity, and Finance

Transcultural Images in Hollywood Cinemaexamines the transnational and transcultural characteristics of Hollywood cinema. The narrative, cinematographic, and aesthetic structures of Hollywood cinema are turned upside down as chapters analyze gender, social, cultural, and economic-political contexts.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I: Transnational Finance and Their Reflections
Chapter 1: Globalizing Legendary Entertainment: Transnational Finance Meets Transculturality
Steve Rawle
Chapoter 2: New Heroes in Transnational Hollywood: An Attempt to Transculturality in Marvel Cinematic Universe
U¿ur Balo¿lu
PART II: The Representation of Others Beyond the Borders
Chapter 3: Strangers at Our Door: A Baumanian Perspective to Children of Men, Elysium and Snowpiercier
Gül Yäartürk
Chapter 4: A Universe of Story and Medium: Transforming Narrative, Representation and Ideology in Star Wars Films and Digital Games
Özge Say¿lgan
PART III: Immigrant Directors & Migration as a Counter-Geography Practice
Chapter 5: Mobile Monstrosity: Boundary-crossing, Genre-bending and Transnational Gothic in the Films of Guillermo del Toro
Jane Hanley
Chapter 6: Medea And Lars Von Trier's Medea: ''Ressentiment,'' Myths And Gender
Özlem O¿uzhan
Chapter 7: Transnational Images In Inarritu's Cinema
Y¿ld¿z Derya Birincio¿lu

About the author

U¿ur Balölu is assistant professor at Istanbul Geli¿im University.
Y¿ld¿z Derya Birinciölu is associate professor at Istanbul Geli¿im University.

Summary

Transcultural Images in Hollywood Cinemaexamines the transnational and transcultural characteristics of Hollywood cinema. The narrative, cinematographic, and aesthetic structures of Hollywood cinema are turned upside down as chapters analyze gender, social, cultural, and economic-political contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Ugur Derya Birincioglu Baloglu
• Assisted by: Balo& (Editor), U¿ur Balo¿lu (Editor), Ugur Baloglu (Editor), Derya Birincio& (Editor), Y¿ld¿z Derya Birincio¿lu (Editor), Yildiz Derya Birincioglu (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781793648976
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-897-6
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Communication, Globalization,; Communication, Globalization, and Cultural Identity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; USA, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Films, cinema, Communication Studies, United States of America, USA, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Regional & National