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This book presents cosmopolitanism as a useful methodological approach to understand the transnational synergies present in contemporary cinema.
List of contents
Introduction
The Good, the Bad and the Real: The Many Faces of the Cosmopolitan
Utopian Cosmopolitanism1. Towards Maturity through Cosmopolitan Attempts in
Party Girl (1995) and
God's Own Country (2017)
2. Seeing from the Border: Cosmopolitan Solidarity in
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
3. Africanisms and the Western Worldview: The Cosmopolitics of Marvel's
Black Panther (2018)
Critical Cosmopolitanism4. Metropolis as Cosmopolis in
Blade Runner (1982) and
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
5. A Cosmopolitan Hero? Agent 007, Black Cosmopolitan Voodoo-Practitioners and the Globalisation of Western Cultural Images in
Live and Let Die (1973)
6. Cosmopolitanism or
Carnage (2011)
7. Wes Anderson's
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) through a Cosmopolitan Lens: India with A French Flavour
Everyday Cosmopolitanism8. Aspirationally Cosmopolitan: Singapore as Cultural Imaginary in
7 Letters (2015) and
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
9. Different Ways of Being No One: Cosmopolitanisms in Manu Riche's
Problemski Hotel (2015)
10. Cosmopolitan (Non-)Cinema: Impurity, Recognition and Hospitality in
The Cambridge Squatter (2016)
About the author
María del Mar Azcona teaches English and Film Studies at the University of Zaragoza. She is the author of
The Multi-Protagonist Film (2010),
Alejandro González Iñárritu, co-written with Celestino Deleyto (2010) and
Before Sunrise (2023), also co-written with Celestino Deleyto. Among her articles are "Matt Damon: A Cosmopolitan Hero for the Mainstream" (
Celebrity Studies 2018) and "The Trickster and the Fool: Matt Damon and Comedy" (
Quarterly Review of Film and Video 2021).
Julia Echeverría is Lecturer in English and Film Studies at the University of Zaragoza. Her research focuses on film genre theory, specifically digital cinema, virality and the representation of space. She is the author of
Epidemic Cinema: The Rise of a Genre (2024).
Pablo Gómez-Muñoz is Lecturer in English and Film at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). His research interests are transnational cinema, science fiction, space, borders, cosmopolitanism and precarity. He is the author of
Science Fiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns (2023).
Summary
This book presents cosmopolitanism as a useful methodological approach to understand the transnational synergies present in contemporary cinema.
