The multilingual screen : new reflections on cinema and linguistic difference / edited by Tijana Mamula and Lisa Patti. - New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2016. - vi, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Film & media studies .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction / Tijana Mamula and Lisa Patti -- Theories. Translating the Academe: Conceptualizing the Transnational in Film and Media / Masha Salazkina -- Seven Types of Multilingualism: Or, Wim Wenders Enfilms Pina Bausch / David Gramling -- Post-anthropocentric Multilingualism in Contemporary Artists' Moving Image: An Interview with T.J. Demos / Tijana Mamula -- Cinephilia as Multilingualism in The Artist (2011) and Blancanieves (2012) / Mary Harrod -- Aesthetics. The Gift of Languages: Notes on Multilingualism in Experimental Cinema / Érik Bullot -- Exile and the "Languages" of Color: 1960s European Cinema, Multilingualism, and Ontological Hesitation / Paul Coates -- The Word in Pasolini's Cinema / Gian Piero Brunetta -- West African Francophone Cinema and the Mysteries of Language: From Ideological Struggle to Aesthetic Shudder / James S. Williams -- Histories. Language in Motion: The Sign Talk Films of Hugh Lenox Scott and Richard Sanderville / Brian Hochman -- Poorly Timed Campaigns: Versions, Dubbing, Subtitles / Juan Piqueras -- The Multilingual New Wave / Alison Smith -- 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 -- Cinema of Reindividuation and Cultural Extraterritoriality: "Chinese" Dialect Cinemas and Regional Politics / Victor Fan -- Politics. Empire, Language and Nationhood: Japanese Colonial Cinema in Korea and Manchuria / Kate Taylor-Jones -- Star Talk: Anna May Wong's Scriptural Orientalism and Poly-phonic (Dis-)play / Yiman Wang -- Out of Many, One: The Dual Monolingualism of Contemporary Flemish Cinema / Jaap Verheul -- Multilingualism and Indigenous Cinema in Northeast India: The Case of Kokborok Language Films / Mara Matta.

"A wide-ranging investigation of the ways that multilingualism has shaped film history, aesthetics, and politics"--

9781501302886 (HB) 9781501302879 (PB)


Motion pictures and language.
Language and languages in motion pictures.
Transnationalism in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--Translating and interpreting.
Dubbing of motion pictures.
Motion pictures--Political aspects.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.

PN1995.4 / .M85 2016

791.43/64 / M T M