Overview

Introduction: teaching transnational cinema: politics and pedagogy / Katarzyna Marciniak and Bruce Bennett -- Seeing "the world" through film. Ignorance and inequality: teaching with transnational cinema / Bruce Bennett -- A pedagogy of humility: teaching European films about immigration / Alex Lykidis -- Understanding context, resisting hermeneutics: ways of seeing transnational relations / Matthew Holtmeier and Chelsea Wessels -- Teaching "the world" through film / Ruth Doughty and Deborah Shaw -- Film-philosophy and the transnational gaze / David Martin-Jones -- Transnational encounters. Transnational lesbian cinema in the women's and gender studies classroom: beyond neoliberal imaginaries of desire? / Rachel Lewis -- Altered states for a critical cosmopolitanism / Anita Wen-shin Chang -- Facilitating student engagement: a performative model of transnational film pedagogy / Mette Hjort -- Pedagogy and personal transformation through transnational film / Laurence Raw -- The pedagogy of the piratical / Bhaskar Sarkar -- "Grateful to be an American": the challenges of teaching transnational documentaries / ?ine O'Healy -- Transnational aporias. A feminist politics and ethics of refusal: teaching transnational cinema in the feminist studies classroom / Neda Atanasoski -- Disempowering knowledge: how to teach not to help / Aga Skrodzka -- Provocative pedagogy: the Middle East / Terri Ginsberg and Tania Kamal-Eldin -- The disappearing classroom: streaming foreigners and a politics of invisibility / Katarzyna Marciniak -- Coda: "teaching films as things to think with": a conversation with Rey Chow / Bruce Bennett and Katarzyna Marciniak