{"product_id":"film-as-world-literature-9798765113400","title":"Film as World Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRedefines the theoretical and thematic contents of world literature by considering it in connection with film.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat gets lost when we understand film as essentially different from literature? What gets lost when we think them essentially the same? Does the constructed difference between literature and film also create social and political exclusions, exclusions that may exacerbate class struggle or exclusions of certain ways of thinking the future as different? \u003ci\u003eFilm as World Literature\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to undo disciplines and disciplinarity: the division between film and literature, indeed, conceals the possibilities of \"world\" by bracketing out \"undisciplined\" parts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors apply ideas of \"translatability\" and \"untranslatability\" not just as a linguistic exercise of transfers between language groups, cultures, and national origins but also as an approach to media and transfers between media. Is film a visual acknowledgement that literary language is, by definition, multilingual - that is, is film a place where political conflicts, as Bakhtin observed, can be rendered visible? Chapters discuss film's relation to world literature not only by considering literary adaptations across nations, regions, languages, ideologies, and contexts but also by exploring film's intersections with literary theory, narrative, history, genre, and experimentation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFilm as World Literature\u003c\/i\u003e calls for recognition that while the category of \"world\" demands a radical defense in the face of risks to democracy, the world that literature and film combined bring forth must interrogate the conditions for a future politics of interaction, engagement, belonging, and difference.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin Truth Goodman\u003c\/b\u003e is a Distinguished Research Professor of English at Florida State University, USA. Her many previous publications include Cinema and the Political Imagination: Third Cinema and Its After-Image (2025), \u003ci\u003eGender Commodity: Marketing Feminist Identities and the Promise of Security\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2022), \u003ci\u003eThe Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st Century Feminist Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (2019); \u003ci\u003ePromissory Notes: On the Literary Conditions of Debt \u003c\/i\u003e(2018); \u003ci\u003eGender for the Warfare State: Literature of Women in Combat\u003c\/i\u003e (2017); and \u003ci\u003eLiterature and the Development of Feminist Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (2016).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749424988434,"sku":"9798765113400","price":142.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fff21b1d-5485-4703-abcb-bf97cc2d7842.jpg?v=1764084656","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/film-as-world-literature-9798765113400","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}