Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema

1. Introduction: Genres in Transition (Silvia Dibeltulo and Ciara Barrett)

Part I. Identities: Race, Ethnicity, Gender

2. Black, White, and Transnational: An Analysis of the Rise, Fall, and Potential Rebirth of the Contemporary Urban Dance Musical in Anglophone Western Cinemas (Ciara Barrett)

3. Tales of Loss, Betrayal, and Regain: Irishness and Ethnic Identity in Contemporary Irish-Themed American Gangster Films (Silvia Dibeltulo)

4. Neurotic and Going Nowhere: Comedy and the Contemporary Jewish American Male (Jennifer O'Meara)

5. Modern Bromance, Mikhail Bakhtin, and the Dialogics of Alterity (David Wall)

Part II. Genre/Nation

6. The En-genrement of the Nation: The Spanish Civil War Film and Guillermo del Toro's Fantasies (Juan F. Egea)

7. Commedia all' italiana American Style: Assessing the Recent Remakes of Classic Comedy Italian Style (Giacomo Boitani)

8. The Wuxia Films of Zhang Yimou: A Genre in Transit (Ian Kinane)

9. The "Smart" Teen Film 1990-2005: Identity Crisis, Nostalgia, and the Teenage Viewpoint (Laura Canning)

10. Constructing the Televideofilm: Corporatization, Genrefication, and the Blurring Boundaries of Nigerian Media (Noah Tsika)

11. From Nordic Gloom to Nordic Cool: Producing Genre Film for the Global Markets (Pietari Kääpä)

12. A Bollywood Commercial for Ireland: Filming Ek Tha Tiger in Dublin (Giovanna Rampazzo)

Part V. Genre(s) in a post-9/11 context

14. Two Chronotopes of the Terrorist Genre (Cormac Deane)

15. Between Torture Porn and Zombie Apocalypse: Horror and Utopia in British-themed Biopolitical Films after 9/11 (Tamás Nagypál)