Crossover Cinema : Cross-Cultural Film From Production to Reception

Cinematic Products In The Twenty-first Century Increasingly Emerge From, Engage With, And Are Consumed In Cross-cultural Settings. While There Have Been A Number Of Terms Used To Describe Cinematic Forms That Do Not Bear Allegiance To A Single Nation In Terms Of Conceptualization, Content, Finance And/or Viewership, This Volume Contends That Crossover Cinema Is The Most Apt Contemporary Description For Those Aspects Of Contemporary Cinema On Which It Focuses. This Contention Is Provoked By An Appreciation Of The Cross-cultural Reality Of Our Post-globalization Twenty-first Century World. This Volume Both Outlines The History Of Usage Of The Term And Grounds It Theoretically In Ways That Emphasize The Personal/poetic In Addition To The Political. Each Of The Three Sections Of The Volume Then Considers Crossover Film From One Of Three Perspectives: Production, The Texts Themselves, And Distribution And Consumption.-- Crossover Cinema: A Genealogical And Conceptual Overview / Sukhmani Khorana -- My Tehran For Sale: A Coproduction With Poetry At Stake / Granaz Moussavi -- Maps And Movies: Talking With Deepa Mehta / Sukhmani Khorana -- Los Libertadores As Crossover Cinema / Noah Zweig -- Hong Kong Film As Crossover Cinema: Maintaining The Hk Aesthetic / Peter C. Pugsley -- On No Longer Speaking Chinese: Crossover Stardom And The Performance Of Accented English / Olivia Khoo -- Bridging Pop Culture And Identity Politics: Faith Akin's Road Movie In July / Aisha Jamal -- Film Policy And The Emergence Of The Cross-cultural: Exploring Crossover Cinema In Flanders (belgium) / Gertjan Willems And Kevin Smets -- Leaping The Demographic Barrier: Theoretical Challenges For The Crossover Audience / Adrian M. Athique -- Seduced Outsiders Versus Skeptical Insiders? Slumdog Millionaire Through Its Re/viewers / Shakuntala Banaji -- Control Room: Film And Websites / Emanuelle Wessels -- Desi Turns Malay: Indian Cinema Redefined As Crossover In The Malaysian Market / Sony Jalarajan Raj And Rohini Sreekumar. Edited By Sukhmani Khorana. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Title 6 Copyright 7 Dedication 8 Contents 10 Acknowledgments 12 PART I Producing a Hybrid Grammar 14 1 Crossover Cinema: A Genealogical and Conceptual Overview 16 2 My Tehran for Sale: A Coproduction with Poetry at Stake 27 3 Maps and Movies: Talking with Deepa Mehta 40 4 Los Libertadores as Crossover Cinema 49 PART II Reading outside the Canon 62 5 Hong Kong Film as Crossover Cinema: Maintaining the HK Aesthetic 64 6 On No Longer Speaking Chinese: Crossover Stardom and the Performance of Accented English 79 7 Bridging Pop Culture and Identity Politics: Fatih Akin’s Road Movie In July 96 8 Film Policy and the Emergence of the Cross-Cultural: Exploring Crossover Cinema in Flanders (Belgium) 107 PART III Watching Other Worlds 118 9 Leaping the Demographic Barrier: Theoretical Challenges for the Crossover Audience 120 10 Seduced “Outsiders” versus Skeptical “Insiders”? Slumdog Millionaire through Its Re/Viewers 136 11 Control Room: Film and Websites 153 12 Desi Turns Malay: Indian Cinema Redefined as Crossover in the Malaysian Market 166 Contributors 180 Index 184