Cosmopolitan Aspirations in Contemporary Cinema

This book presents cosmopolitanism as a useful methodological approach to understand the transnational synergies present in contemporary cinema.

In line with existing literature from the social sciences, the volume aims to contribute to the ‘cosmopolitan turn’ in cinema studies. It considers cosmopolitanism as, among others, a personal and social aspiration of social justice, world citizenship and celebration of difference; a notion to be criticised as elitist, Western, often imperialist, an...