Introduction: The Terms of Debate
Goethe and Weltliteratur
The Theory of World Literature
From World Literature to Alternative Modernisms
The Cosmopolitanism of the Periphery
Columbus, El Nuevo Mundo, and Postcolonial Studies
French Postcoloniality and Litterature-Monde
Sibling Disciplines: Literary Studies and Cinema Studies
From Literature to Film: A Study in Ambivalence
The Cinema and the World Literature Canon
The Gains of (Film) Translation
Adaptation, Remix, and the Cultural Commons
From Adaptation to Remix
World Cinema: The Pre-Hisory
The Theory of World Cinema
World Music and the Commons
Transmedial Music in Latin America
The Transnational Turn
Transnational Cinema
The Coefficient of Transnationality
Transnational Reception, Gender, and Aesthetics
Transnational Film Schools and Pedagogy
The Rise of the "Woods": From Hollywood to Nollywood via Bollywood
Globalization, Political Economy, and the Media
Acquatic Tropologies
Technologies of Intermedial Flow
Globalization: The Mediatic Resistance
Transoceanic Currents: the Red, Black, and White Atlantic
Global Indigeneity and the Transnational Gaze
The Media’s "Deep Time" and the Planetary Commons
The Commons and the Globalized Citizen
Terminological Reflections
Toward a "Trans" Methodology
Robert Stam is University Professor at New York University. His books include François Truffaut and Friends; Literature through Film; Film Theory: An Introduction; and (with Ella Shohat) Unthinking Eurocentrism and Race in Translation. With work translated into sixteen languages, he has taught in France, Brazil, Tunisia, Germany, and the UAE.
"Robert Stam takes on the world—world literature, world cinema,
world digital media, even world music—in this heaven-storming
encyclopedia that shows what happens to all sorts of entertainment
when it crosses national and cultural borders and gets
reconceptualized, rebranded, marginalized, reviled, hailed, or all
of the above. Although his canvas is vast, Stam is less a
synthesizer intent on providing a single authoritative map
revealing the relations among world literature, postcolonial
literature, and transnational cinema than an effervescent and
monumentally well-informed tour guide who wants to raise our
consciousness, or a big-top carnival barker who invites us to
celebrate carnival culture." Thomas Leitch, University of
Delaware"World Literature, Transnational Cinema, and Global Media
stages a much needed, layered, and illuminating dialogue between
the related fields of literature, cinema, and media studies. All
marked by a 'transnational turn', these fields share various
methodologies and concerns, yet rarely talk to and learn from each
other. In a beautifully orchestrated polylogue that engages fresh
voices and perspectives, Stam not only addresses but actually moves
across various kinds of borders—spatial, temporal, discursive,
disciplinary, mediatic, textual—with incredible deftness, scope,
and insight. In this invaluable book, border-crossing or 'trans' in
all its permutations is not just a buzz word but an epistemological
prerogative, a necessary way of thinking and understanding."Meta
Mazaj, Univesity of Pennsylvania"Robert Stam’s pivotal position in
film and literary studies is once again confirmed with this book, a
sweeping account of how literature, film and all other arts
converse beyond national and medial borders. Stam, like no-one
else, can make sense of the jargon of 'trans', 'inter' and 'global'
that litters contemporary academic vocabulary. Away from easy
sloganeering and drawing on his truly encyclopaedic erudition in
art history and theory, he weaves these terms into a 'network of
activism', as he calls it, in order to effectively combat ideas of
'primacies' and 'centres' so dear to the colonial project. Stam’s
luminous scholarship is ferociously political, but equally
compelling for its openness to the beauty of the arts, languages
and cultures of the entire world."Lúcia Nagib, University of
Reading"In the 21st century most cultural fields such as cinema,
literature, and music have abandoned their national identities for
a global practice in which different traditions and forms pass
through new crucibles of creativity. Yet while their critical
reception has acknowledged the irruption of the global within them,
Robert Stam is the first to demonstrate that global also means the
crossing of different fields with each other. This brilliant study
of transcreativity across contemporary cultures offers the first
analysis of the transformative power of globalization across the
media."Robert J. C. Young, New York University"Written with
encyclopedic erudition, the book can simultaneously be read as a
sophisticated reader or "keyword" reference book providing guidance
to navigate an increasingly complex body of academic literature
[... ] and a much more ambitious essay calling for experimental
teaching and research methodologies [...] Stam’s line of arguments
transgresses well-established national, disciplinary and historical
borders—a gesture that often implies a critical revision of the
traditional toolbox of (Western) film scholars."SYNOPTIQUE Review,
Pablo La Parra-Pérez
"Robert Stam takes on the world—world literature, world cinema,
world digital media, even world music—in this heaven-storming
encyclopedia that shows what happens to all sorts of entertainment
when it crosses national and cultural borders and gets
reconceptualized, rebranded, marginalized, reviled, hailed, or all
of the above. Although his canvas is vast, Stam is less a
synthesizer intent on providing a single authoritative map
revealing the relations among world literature, postcolonial
literature, and transnational cinema than an effervescent and
monumentally well-informed tour guide who wants to raise our
consciousness, or a big-top carnival barker who invites us to
celebrate carnival culture." Thomas Leitch, University of
Delaware"World Literature, Transnational Cinema, and Global Media
stages a much needed, layered, and illuminating dialogue between
the related fields of literature, cinema, and media studies. All
marked by a 'transnational turn', these fields share various
methodologies and concerns, yet rarely talk to and learn from each
other. In a beautifully orchestrated polylogue that engages fresh
voices and perspectives, Stam not only addresses but actually moves
across various kinds of borders—spatial, temporal, discursive,
disciplinary, mediatic, textual—with incredible deftness, scope,
and insight. In this invaluable book, border-crossing or 'trans' in
all its permutations is not just a buzz word but an epistemological
prerogative, a necessary way of thinking and understanding."Meta
Mazaj, Univesity of Pennsylvania"Robert Stam’s pivotal position in
film and literary studies is once again confirmed with this book, a
sweeping account of how literature, film and all other arts
converse beyond national and medial borders. Stam, like no-one
else, can make sense of the jargon of 'trans', 'inter' and 'global'
that litters contemporary academic vocabulary. Away from easy
sloganeering and drawing on his truly encyclopaedic erudition in
art history and theory, he weaves these terms into a 'network of
activism', as he calls it, in order to effectively combat ideas of
'primacies' and 'centres' so dear to the colonial project. Stam’s
luminous scholarship is ferociously political, but equally
compelling for its openness to the beauty of the arts, languages
and cultures of the entire world."Lúcia Nagib, University of
Reading"In the 21st century most cultural fields such as cinema,
literature, and music have abandoned their national identities for
a global practice in which different traditions and forms pass
through new crucibles of creativity. Yet while their critical
reception has acknowledged the irruption of the global within them,
Robert Stam is the first to demonstrate that global also means the
crossing of different fields with each other. This brilliant study
of transcreativity across contemporary cultures offers the first
analysis of the transformative power of globalization across the
media."Robert J. C. Young, New York University
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