Film and the Transnational

Question 1

What does transnational refer to?

Answer 1

“Trans” referring to across nations, specifically the flows and exchanges that characterize our current political, economic, and social lives

Question 2

What does transnational evoke a sense of?

Answer 2

Movement, captures a phenomenon that defines the 20th century early, 21st century, flows and exchanges that move beyond the boundaries of a single state; the effects of globalization and the digital revolution

Question 3

International co-productions cross national boundaries in what way?

Answer 3

Through financing and personnel (actors/actresses and crew)

Question 4

What kind of elements can travel across cinema of different nations?

Answer 4

Aesthetic and key personnel

Question 5

Films flow toward and away from Hollywood, exchanges of interest to scholars researching “film and the transnational” discuss what?

Answer 5

• Those involving money, personnel, films
• Those that emanate from Hollywood
• Those that move toward Hollywood
• Those that do not route themselves through Hollywood in any way

Question 6

Cinema has always depended on networks of what?

Answer 6

Change and movement

Question 7

Many flows and exchanges do not come from Hollywood cinema, what is an example of this?

Answer 7

Soviet cinema = Tout Va Bien

Question 8

Define unmarked transnationalism

Answer 8

A transnationalism that doesn’t draw attention to itself (Mette Hjort)

Question 9

Define marked transnationalism

Answer 9

The filmmakers purposefully direct viewers attention to different nations, and encourages viewers to think about transnationality (Mette Hjort)