Transnational Cinema and Ideology: Representing Religion, Identity and Cultural Myths (Routledge Studies in Religion and Film)

Synopsis

Increasingly, as the production, distribution and audience of films cross national boundaries, film scholars have begun to think in terms of ‘transnational’ rather than national cinema. This book is positioned within the emerging field of transnational cinema, and offers a groundbreaking study of the relationship between transnational cinema and ideology. The book focuses in particular on the complex ways in which religion, identity and cultural myths interact in specific cinematic representations of ideology. Author Milja Radovic approaches the selected films as national, regional products, and then moves on to comparative analysis and discussion of their transnational aspects. This book also addresses the question of whether transnationalism reinforces the nation or not; one of the possible answers to this question may be given through the exploration of the cinema of national states and its transnational aspects. Radovic illustrates the ways in which these issues, represented and framed by films, are transmitted beyond their nation-state borders and local ideologies in which they originated – and questions whether therefore one can have an understanding of transnational cinema as a platform for political dialogue.

Copyright:

2014

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

164 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781135013202

Related ISBNs:

9780415843997, 9780203752555, 9781138546318

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

07/08/22

Copyrighted By:

Taylor and Francis

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Religion and Spirituality, Politics and Government

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