Prompt #9

Blog Prompts for Transnationalism Course

Posts by Group B due on November 18

Comments by Group C due on November 19

1)    Cinema is a medium very different from text-based literature not only for its audiovisual form but also for the particularities of its production process, such as collaboration (among actors, directors, producers, editors, etc.) and the substantial expense of making, distributing, and exhibiting a film. In light of these factors, and with reference to this week’s readings, discuss the particular aims and methods of analyzing transnational cinema.

2)    In their article, Ezra and Rowden propose that, “The concept of transnationalism enables us to better understand the changing ways in which the contemporary world is being imagined by an increasing number of filmmakers across genres as a global system rather than as a collection of more or less autonomous nations” (1). Focusing on form and content, discuss how the “contemporary world” is imagined in Y tu mamá también, including both its representation of the global system and of Mexico, as a place and an idea.