Transcultural Images in Hollywood Cinema: Debates on Migration, Identity, and Finance (Communication, Globalization, and Cultural Identity)

Transcultural Images in Hollywood Cinema discusses how cinema, particularly Hollywood, impacts the cultural identities we construct for ourselves in order to make sense of who we are in the world. The politics of representation in cinema influence the boundaries of ethnic and racial characteristics and invent cultural and symbolic meanings that create a conventional image throughout the world. The transnational perspective, dissolves, fragments, and decentralizes this image, leaving the nationalist understanding of identity to a hybrid form. Cultures and identities that are expanded across borders form a mosaic by combining their local characteristics with those of the host cultures. This book examines 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. Scholars of international communication, film, and social sciences will find this book particularly interesting. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction Part I: Transnational Finance and Their Reflections Chapter 1: Globalizing Legendary Entertainment: Transnational Finance Meets Transculturality Transnational Capital, Transcultural Content Legendary: From Investment Firm to Chinese Subsidiary The Great Wall Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 2: New Heroes in Transnational Hollywood: An Attempt to Transculturality in Marvel Cinematic Universe Is colonial understanding Over? Did It Change Its Form? Global Cultural Flow and New Representation Strategies Superheroes in the New (Transcultural) Cinematic Universe Conclusion Notes Bibliography Part II: The Representation of Others beyond the Borders Chapter 3: Strangers at Our Door: A Baumanian Perspective to Children of Men, Elysium, and Snowpiercer Introduction Refugee as “Homo Sacer” and “Human as Waste” in Giorgio Agamben and Zygmunt Bauman Children of Men: White Man Saves Human as Waste Elysium: Human as Waste Transforms into a Savior Snowpiercer: Human as Waste Understands Being Deceived Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 4: A Universe of Story and Medium: Transforming Narrative, Representation, and Ideology in Star Wars Films and Digital Games Star Wars Transmedia Storytelling: A Postmodern Universe The Hero’s Journey, the Monomyth and the Representation of Main Archetypes in Star Wars Digital Transculturalism, Withering Narratives, Nostalgy, and the Story as Capital in Star Wars: Battlefront II Conclusion Note Bibliography Part III: Immigrant Directors and Migration as a Counter-Geography Practice Chapter 5: Boundary-Crossing and Genre-Bending in the Films of Guillermo del Toro Introduction Transnational Screens and Hollywood Cinema Living/Dead Familiar/Strange Conclusion: An Ethics of Crossing Notes Bibliography Chapter 6: Medea and Lars von Trier’s Medea: ”Ressentıment,” Myths, and Gender Before Medea Medea After Medea Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 7: Transnational Images in Iñárritu Cinema Introduction The Culture Industry Reconstructed by Neoliberalism Mexican Representation in Hollywood Cinema from Yesterday to Today: Or Are Mexicans Discovering Hollywood Aesthetics? Cinematographic Traces of Transnational Codes: El Hollywood Cinema Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index About the Authors "Transcultural Images in Hollywood Cinema examines 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"-- Provided by publisher