The multilingual screen
Subtitle: new reflections on cinema and linguistic difference
By: edited by Tijana Mamula, Lisa Patti
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781501302886; 9781501302879
Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion pictures and language; Translating and interpreting; Transnationalism in motion pictures; Dubbing of motion pictures; Language and languages in motion pictures; Political aspects; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Description: "A wide-ranging investigation of the ways that multilingualism has shaped film history, aesthetics, and politics"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction / Tijana Mamula and Lisa Patti; title: Theories. Translating the Academe: Conceptualizing the Transnational in Film and Media / Masha Salazkina; title: Seven Types of Multilingualism: Or, Wim Wenders Enfilms Pina Bausch / David Gramling; title: Post-anthropocentric Multilingualism in Contemporary Artists' Moving Image: An Interview with T.J. Demos / Tijana Mamula; title: Cinephilia as Multilingualism in The Artist (2011) and Blancanieves (2012) / Mary Harrod; title: Aesthetics. The Gift of Languages: Notes on Multilingualism in Experimental Cinema / Érik Bullot; title: Exile and the "Languages" of Color: 1960s European Cinema, Multilingualism, and Ontological Hesitation / Paul Coates; title: The Word in Pasolini's Cinema / Gian Piero Brunetta; title: West African Francophone Cinema and the Mysteries of Language: From Ideological Struggle to Aesthetic Shudder / James S. Williams; title: Histories. Language in Motion: The Sign Talk Films of Hugh Lenox Scott and Richard Sanderville / Brian Hochman; title: Poorly Timed Campaigns: Versions, Dubbing, Subtitles / Juan Piqueras; title: The Multilingual New Wave / Alison Smith; title: Language and National Identity in New Tunisian Cinema: Moufida Tlatli's The Silences of the Palace (1994) and Férid Boughedir's A Summer in La Goulette (1996) / Robert Lang; title: Cinema of Reindividuation and Cultural Extraterritoriality: "Chinese" Dialect Cinemas and Regional Politics / Victor Fan; title: Politics. Empire, Language and Nationhood: Japanese Colonial Cinema in Korea and Manchuria / Kate Taylor-Jones; title: Star Talk: Anna May Wong's Scriptural Orientalism and Poly-phonic (Dis-)play / Yiman Wang; title: Out of Many, One: The Dual Monolingualism of Contemporary Flemish Cinema / Jaap Verheul; title: Multilingualism and Indigenous Cinema in Northeast India: The Case of Kokborok Language Films / Mara Matta.