Global Cinema Symposium

The two-day symposium includes two keynote addresses by prominent scholars in the field, a featured panel of invited scholars, a pedagogy workshop, and traditional panels comprised of speakers selected from the open call for papers.

The Driving Questions of the Symposium

The Driving Questions of the SymposiumHow can the familiar concept of transnational cinema elucidate emergent and unfamiliar problems in the contemporary landscape?How do we define and teach transnational cinema now?Is transnational cinema best understood as a framework, an approach, a mode of filmmaking, or a category of world cinema?How does transnational cinema intersect with, or diverge from, national, world, and global cinema theories?What are the political, aesthetic, or ethical stakes of emphasizing transnationality in film studies today?