"Transcultural Images in Hollywood Cinema examines the transnational and transcultural characteristics of Hollywood cinema. The narrative, cinematographic, and aesthetic structures of Hollywood cinema are turned upside down as chapters analyze gender, social, cultural, and economic-political contexts"--.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I: Transnational Finance and Their Reflections
• Chapter 1: Globalizing Legendary Entertainment: Transnational Finance Meets Transculturality
  • Transnational Capital, Transcultural Content
  • Legendary: From Investment Firm to Chinese Subsidiary
  • The Great Wall
  • Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
• Chapter 2: New Heroes in Transnational Hollywood: An Attempt to Transculturality in Marvel Cinematic Universe
  • Is colonial understanding Over? Did It Change Its Form?
  • Global Cultural Flow and New Representation Strategies
  • Superheroes in the New (Transcultural) Cinematic Universe
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
• Part II: The Representation of Others beyond the Borders
• Chapter 3: Strangers at Our Door: A Baumanian Perspective to Children of Men, Elysium, and Snowpiercer
  • Introduction
  • Refugee as “Homo Sacer” and “Human as Waste” in Giorgio Agamben and Zygmunt Bauman
  • Children of Men: White Man Saves Human as Waste
  • Elysium: Human as Waste Transforms into a Savior
  • Snowpiercer: Human as Waste Understands Being Deceived
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
• Chapter 4: A Universe of Story and Medium: Transforming Narrative, Representation, and Ideology in Star Wars Films and Digital Games
  • Star Wars Transmedia Storytelling: A Postmodern Universe
  • The Hero’s Journey, the Monomyth and the Representation of Main Archetypes in Star Wars
  • Digital Transculturalism, Withering Narratives, Nostalgy, and the Story as Capital in Star Wars: Battlefront II
  • Conclusion
  • Note
  • Bibliography
• Part III: Immigrant Directors and Migration as a Counter-Geography Practice
• Chapter 5: Boundary-Crossing and Genre-Bending in the Films of Guillermo del Toro
  • Introduction
  • Transnational Screens and Hollywood Cinema
  • Living/Dead
  • Familiar/Strange
  • Conclusion: An Ethics of Crossing
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
• Chapter 6: Medea and Lars von Trier’s Medea: ”Ressentıment,” Myths, and Gender
  • Before Medea
  • Medea
  • After Medea
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
• Chapter 7: Transnational Images in Iñárritu Cinema
  • Introduction
  • The Culture Industry Reconstructed by Neoliberalism
  • Mexican Representation in Hollywood Cinema from Yesterday to Today: Or Are Mexicans Discovering Hollywood Aesthetics?
  • Cinematographic Traces of Transnational Codes: El Hollywood Cinema
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
• Index
• About the Authors