Cosmopolitan Aspirations in Contemporary Cinema

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

Introduction
The Good, the Bad and the Real: The Many Faces of the Cosmopolitan
Utopian Cosmopolitanism
1. Towards Maturity through Cosmopolitan Attempts in Party Girl (1995) and God's Own Country (2017)
2. Seeing from the Border: Cosmopolitan Solidarity in Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
3. Africanisms and the Western Worldview: The Cosmopolitics of Marvel's Black Panther (2018)
Critical Cosmopolitanism
4. Metropolis as Cosmopolis in Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
5. A Cosmopolitan Hero? Agent 007, Black Cosmopolitan Voodoo-Practitioners and the Globalisation of Western Cultural Images in Live and Let Die (1973)
6. Cosmopolitanism or Carnage (2011)
7. Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited (2007) through a Cosmopolitan Lens: India with A French Flavour
Everyday Cosmopolitanism
8. Aspirationally Cosmopolitan: Singapore as Cultural Imaginary in 7 Letters (2015) and Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
9. Different Ways of Being No One: Cosmopolitanisms in Manu Riche's Problemski Hotel (2015)
10. Cosmopolitan (Non-)Cinema: Impurity, Recognition and Hospitality in The Cambridge Squatter (2016)