Transnational Cinemas
Scholarly Interest Group
RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH
SIG Reading Group
Join us monthly for a lively discussion of a significant article or chapter related to the topic of transnational cinema.
Check out Past and Future Topics, Dates, and Recordings.
Reading Group Schedule for 2020 - 2022
All sessions go live via Zoom at noon U.S. Eastern Time and continue for 1 1/2 hours. Texts for the readings are available as PDF files through the SIG’s Website.
2020
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August 21, 2020
Deborah Shaw, Professor of Film and Screen Studies, University of Portsmouth
Reading: “Transnational Cinema: Mapping a Field of Study,” from Routledge Companion to World Cinema, edited by Rob Stone, Paul Cooke, Stephanie Dennison & Alex Marlow-Mann, 2017
Link to Zoom Recording
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October 16, 2020
Seung-hoon Jeong (currently at Seoul National University)
Reading: “World Cinema in a Global Frame” [commissioned for the inaugural issue of Studies in World Cinema (2020, Brill)]
Link to Zoom Recording
November 20, 2020
Rajinder Dudrah, Professor of Cultural Studies & Creative Industries, Birmingham School of Media
Reading: Dudrah, R. (2011). “Beyond World Cinema? The Dialectics of Black British Diasporic Cinema.” In Theorizing World Cinema, co-edited with Lucia Nagib and Chris Perriam, Tauris
Link to Zoom Recording
December 18, 2020
William Costanzo, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English and Film, New York
Reading: “The Warrior Hero,” Chapter 1 from World Cinema Through Global Genres. Wiley Blackwell, 2014. Link to Zoom Recording
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2021
January 15, 2021
Chris Berry, Professor of Film Studies, Kings College London
Background text: Chris Berry (2010) “What is transnational cinema? Thinking from the Chinese situation.” Transnational Cinemas, 1:2, 111-127.
Chris Berry will be updating his thoughts on China as a “transnational cinematic space” with a presentation entitled “Welcome to the Sinosphere” (forthcoming). Link to Zoom Recording.
February 19, 2021
Iain Robert Smith, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, King’s College London
Austin Fisher, Associate Professor of Popular Culture, Bournemouth University
Text: Iain Robert Smith and Austin Fisher (2019) “Second phase transnationalism: reflections on launching the SCMS transnational cinemas scholarly interest group,” Transnational Screens, 10:2, 114-125. Link to Zoom Recording.
March 5, 2021
Matthew Holtmeier, Co-Director, Film and Media Studies, East State Tennessee University
Text: The Modern Political Cinema: From Third Cinema to Contemporary Networked Biopolitics.
Matt's presentation will immediately follow the SIG's pre-conference meeting, which begins at 3pm CST, Zoom Room B.
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April 30, 2021
Co-sponsored by BAFTSS and the SCMS SIG on Transnational Cinema
Alan O’Leary, Associate Professor of Film and Media in Digital Contexts, Aarhus University
Texts: Except from The Battle of Algiers (published by Mimesis International, 2019) and Videoessay (from InTransition, 2019). Link to Zoom recording.
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May 21, 2021
This session is co-sponsored by BAFTSS and the SCMS SIG on Transnational Cinema
Bruce Bennett, Senior Lecturer and Director of Film Studies at Lancaster University
Text: "Becoming refugees: Exodus and contemporary mediations of the refugee crisis', Transnational Cinemas, 9:1, 13-30 (2018)
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June 15, 2021
Chris Berry, Professor of Film Studies, Kings College London
Text: Welcome to the Sinosphere: Chinese Transnational Cinema Today
Link to Recording
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July 16, 2021
Michael Gott, Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies and French & Francophone Studies at the University of Cincinnati
Text: "The Border Imaginary of European TV Series: From Dark Forests to Shaky Ground"
Link to recording
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October 15, 2021
Co-sponsored by BAFTSS and the SCMS SIG on Transnational Cinema
Anamarija Horvat, University of Nottingham
Texts: “Queer Memory and Film” and “The borders of memory: Transnational trends in LGBTQ representation”
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November 19, 2021
Rob Stone (Professor of Film Studies) & Luis Freijo (doctoral researcher), University of Birmingham
Text: World Cinema between the rock of the unknowable and the hard place of the as yet unknown, Transnational Screens, 12:1, 1-22 (2021)
Link to Zoom recording.
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December 17, 2021
Co-sponsored by BAFTSS and the SCMS SIG on Transnational Cinema
Dalila Missero, Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, UK
Text: “Memory and gender as migrant audience formations: Latin American women remembering cinema and films across borders” Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, Vol 18: 12, November 2021.
Link to meeting information, including Zoom recording.
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2022
January 21, 2022
Delia Chiaro, Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Bologna
Topic: “From Hollywood to Netflix: A Potted History of Screen Translation”
Text: "Where have all the varieties gone? The vicious circle of the disappearance act in screen"
Link to Zoom recording.
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February 25, 2022
Co-sponsored by BAFTSS and the SCMS SIG on Transnational Cinema
Dr Aida Vallejo, Associate Professor, University of the Basque Country (Spain)
Topic: Documentary Film Festivals: transnational crossroads for films and professionals
Link to meeting information, including texts.
Link to Zoom recording.
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March 12. 2022
Annual SIG business meeting held during the SCMS preconference.
Saturday, March 12, 1pm Eastern Time.
April 15, 2022
Nicole Wallenbrock, Assistant Professor Modern Languages, Hostos Community College
Text: “Three Transnational Documentaries (Algérie Tours/détours, La Chine est encore loin, and Fidai).”
June 24, 2022
Co-sponsored by BAFTSS and the SCMS SIG on Transnational Cinema
Shohini Chaudhuri, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex
Text: Crisis Cinema in the Middle East
Link to Zoom recording.
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September 30, 2022
Jamal Bahmad, Mohammed V University, Rabat
Will Higbee, Professor of Film Studies, University of Exeter
Topic: Amazigh Cinema: The Global Flows of Local Images Time
Text: Chapter 4 (“Amazigh Cinema") from Will Higbee, Florence Martin, Jamal Bahmad, Moroccan Cinema Uncut (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) pp. 123-157
Link to recording.
October 26, 2022
Co-sponsored by BAFTSS and the SCMS SIG on Transnational Cinemas
Dr Carmen Herrero| Principal Lecturer in Hispanic Studies| Manchester Metropolitan University
Topic: Connecting and celebrating culturally diverse communities though film: The Beyond Babel Film Festival
Text: “The Beyond Babel Multilingual Film Festival”, Journal of Film and Video, 72 (1-2)
Invitation to Zoom
November 18, 2022
Juan Llamas Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Topic: "The Borders of Virtual Reality"
Link to Text
Link to Recording
December 9, 2022
Co-sponsored by BAFTSS and the SCMS SIG on Transnational Cinemas
Prof. Sandra Ponzanesi (Utrecht University) and Ana Mendes (University of Lisbon)
Topic: Screening Intellectuals. Cinematic Engagements and Postcolonial Activism”
Link to editorial and full special issue of Transnational Screens
Link to Zoom for December 9, 11am Eastern Time
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2023
January 27, 2023
Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, Professor of English and Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine
Primary Reading: “Kingdom Cultures: Zombie Growth and Netflix Korea”
Secondary Reading: “Introduction” to Vicious Circuits
Link to recording.
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February 22, 2023
Co-sponsored by BAFTSS and the SCMS SIG on Transnational Cinemas
Pablo Gómez-Muñoz, University of Zaragoza (Spain)
Topic: Transnational and Cosmopolitan Perspectives in Science Fiction Cinemas
Link to Reading: Intro to Science Fiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns
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March 17, 2023
Topic: Screening the Posthuman
Presenters:
· Pansy Duncan, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies (Massey University in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand)
· Claire Henry, Lecturer in Screen (Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia)
· Missy Molloy, Senior Lecturer in Film (Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand)
Link to Reading: “Introduction” to Screening the Posthuman
Link to Video Essay: “Art Cinema’s Suicidal Posthuman Women”
Link to Zoom Recording
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April 19, 2023
Co-sponsored by BAFTSS and the SCMS SIG on Transnational Cinemas
Rachel Barraclough, Associate Lecturer, University of Lincoln, UK
Topic: Transnational Dimensions of Japanese Horror Cinema
Link to reading: Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze: Interrogating and Reconceptualizing Dominant, Bloomsbury, 2022
Link to Zoom
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June 13, 2023
Co-sponsored by BAFTSS and the SCMS SIG on Transnational Cinemas
Topic: Border Crossing and Mobilities on Screen
Presenters:
· Irene Gutiérrez Torres, award-winning documentary filmmaker, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
· Ruxandra Trandafoiu, Edge Hill University UK
Link to readings from Border Crossing and Mobilities on Screen (2022)
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September 15, 2023
Presenter: Petr Szczepanik, Associate Professor at Charles University in Prague
Topic: Between Warsaw, Budapest and Prague: A New Map of Europe’s Peripheral Production Centres
Reading: “SVOD Production in East-Central Europe: Understanding the ‘Streamer Imaginaries’
of Independent Producers”
Link to Reading:
Link to Recording
2024
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January 26, 2024
Presenter: John P. Bennett, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Topic: "Algerian International Co-productions: Industry and Ideology, 1966-1972"
Link to Recording
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April 26, 2024
Presenter: Anikó Imre, Professor in School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California.
Topic: Midsommar Fantasies: Storytelling Across Illiberal Populist Media and Global Platforms
Link to Reading
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