Transnational Screens Journal

On the left, a screenshot of the online article "Exorcising patriarchy: the subversion of exorcism tropes in Verónica and the Devil’s Doorway" in plain text.

On the right, an image from the film VERÓNICA in which an older teenage girl holds out a crucifix as if to ward some evil off, and two smaller children clutch at her legs in fear.

Is the standard male priest + possessed woman too … American? Maria Gil Poisa looks at one Spanish and one Irish exorcism film to find out. "Exorcising patriarchy: the subversion of exorcism tropes in Verónica & The Devil's Doorway" is new from @tscreensjournal.bsky.social.
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Suarez’s article examines how hybridity permeates the narratives and characters in the Mexican Netflix series Diablero, projecting notions of a desirable contemporary Mexicanness that embraces both pre-Hispanic and European ancestries while being distinctly global.

The final article in our current issue is ‘Projecting Mexico to the world: updating hybridity in Diablero (2018-2020)’ by Marta F. Suarez.

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This article utilises the notions of symbolic and social capital to unpack how value addition occurs in festivals, with focus on multiple films and trade press interviews. Odabasi argues that the Cannes label was a significant tool during a global pandemic and an interconnected network.

The fourth article in our current issue is ‘Value creation and the international film festival circuit: the Cannes 2020 label’ by Eren Odabasi.

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Toffano argues that the presence of spectrality in these films serves as a tool for crafting a visual counter-narrative of migration, demonstrating how haunting representations of mobile subjects disrupt coherent, naturalized and stable conceptions of nations, identities and borders.

The third article in our current issue is 'Specters of migration: haunting anomalies in Jupiter’s Moon (2017), Europe (2022) and The Quiet Migration(2023)' by Giacomo Toffano.

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Blizzard’s article reveals how the Mexican film star’s projects in Italy constituted transnational experiments within a broader Southern European postwar strategy to counter Hollywood’s market dominance.

The second article in our current issue is ‘María Félix in Italy’ by Mónica García Blizzard.

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They trace the evolution of Chinese-language theatrical distribution in North America since 1992 via historical and comparative analyses of the acquisition priorities, marketing and release strategies, and target audiences of Sony Pictures Classics, Well Go U.S.A. Entertainment, and China Lion.

The first article in our current issue is "Lions, Tigers and Dragon seals: Chinese-Language film distribution in North American cinemas" by Wesley Jacks and Yongli Li.

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Transnational Screens Volume 16, Issue 1 of Transnational Screens

🚨 New issue! 🚨

We are excited to announce that the latest issue of Transnational Screens (Vol 16) is now available online via this link - www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtrc21/1...

The new issue includes 5 new articles and 2 book reviews. We'll be posting more info about each one over the next few weeks!

Formalised transnationalism in the informal Nigerian video film industry: streaming, audience re-imaginations and production reconfigurations This article examines the implications of the transnational dynamics of streaming for the Nigerian video film industry (Nollywood) considering its historical predominance of informality in cross-bo...

"Formalised transnationalism in the informal Nigerian video film industry: streaming, audience re-imaginations and production re-configurations" (Godwin Simon)

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