[Commlist] New book: Cosmopolitan Aspirations in Contemporary Cinema

It is a pleasure to share that the edited volume /Cosmopolitan 
Aspirations in Contemporary Cinema 
<https://www.routledge.com/Cosmopolitan-Aspirations-in-Contemporary-Cinema/Azcona-Echeverria-Gomez-Munoz/p/book/9781032794983?srsltid=AfmBOormju_GkgtVlVHxh1K1YckvJrWFKznFRJyBhHWfSpRPL49u5qC9>/has 
been published in the /Routledge Advances in Film Studies///series. A 
brief description and the Table of Contents are provided below. We hope 
you find the volume interesting and thought-provoking.


*Description*

This book presents cosmopolitanism as a useful methodological approach 
to understand the transnational synergies present in contemporary 
cinema. In line with existing literature from the social sciences, the 
volume aims to contribute to the ‘cosmopolitan turn’ in cinema studies. 
It considers cosmopolitanism as, among others, a personal and social 
aspiration of social justice, world citizenship and celebration of 
difference; a notion to be criticised as elitist, Western, often 
imperialist, and homogenising; and an actually existing social practice 
characterised by contradiction, messiness and conflict. The chapters in 
this volume offer insights into the variety of sometimes contradictory 
discourses that arise from a cosmopolitan interpretation of a wide 
variety of film texts. Key topics explored in this book include borders, 
(im)mobilities, migration, race, class and film aesthetics.

*Table of Contents*

*Introduction*

The Good, the Bad and the Real: The Many Faces of the Cosmopolitan

/María del Mar Azcona /and/Celestino Deleyto
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*Utopian Cosmopolitanism*

1. Towards Maturity through Cosmopolitan Attempts in /Party Girl/ (1995) 
and /God’s Own Country/ (2017)

/Andrea Regueira Martín/

2. Seeing from the Border: Cosmopolitan Solidarity in /Terminator: Dark 
Fate/ (2019)

/Marianne Kac-Vergne/

3. Africanisms and the Western Worldview: The Cosmopolitics of Marvel’s 
/Black Panther/ (2018)

/Hervé Mayer/

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*Critical Cosmopolitanism*

4. Metropolis as Cosmopolis in /Blade Runner/ (1982) and /Blade Runner 
2049 /(2017)

/Christophe Gelly/

5.     A Cosmopolitan Hero? Agent 007, Black Cosmopolitan 
Voodoo-Practitioners and the Globalisation of Western Cultural Images in 
/Live and Let Die/ (1973)

/Mikaël Toulza/

6. Cosmopolitanism or /Carnage /(2011)

/Andrés Bartolomé/

7.     Wes Anderson’s /The Darjeeling Limited/ (2007) through a 
Cosmopolitan Lens: India with A French Flavour

/Julie Assouly/

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*Everyday Cosmopolitanism*

8. Aspirationally Cosmopolitan: Singapore as Cultural Imaginary in /7 
Letters/ (2015) and /Crazy Rich Asians /(2018)

/Felicia Chan/

9. Different Ways of Being No One: Cosmopolitanisms in Manu Riche’s 
/Problemski Hotel/ (2015)

/Bram Van Beek/

10.  Cosmopolitan (Non-)Cinema: Impurity, Recognition and Hospitality in 
/The Cambridge Squatter/ (2016)

/Humberto Saldanha/



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