World Literature, Transnational Cinema, and Global Media : Towards a Transartistic Commons (Paperback)

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 Canon

The Gains of (Film) Translation

Adaptation and Cultural Estrangement

Adaptation, Remix, and the Cultural Commons

The International Pre-History of World Cinema

The Emergence of World Cinema

The Convergence of Worlds in the Musical Commons

Musical Transmediality in the Global South

The Transnational Turn

Minor Cinema, the Indigene, and the State

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; 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