| Kathleen Newman is a Latin Americanist whose research focuses ontheoretical questions regarding the relation between fictional narrative and politics (specifically, the depiction of violence, State terror, and torture) and regarding the relation between cinema and globalization. Her teaching includes international film history and transnational film theory as well as courses on Latin American, Chicano, and Spanish Cinemas. She has published on both literature and film; her first book was La violencia del discurso: el estado autoritario y la novela política argentina . Her current two book projects, Argentine Silent Film: Feminism, Democracy, and Modernity and Cinema and Citizenship in the United States: The State in Dispersion, will examine the ways in which cinema is constitutive of citizenship. Kathleen Newman and Natasa Durovicova are co-editing an AFI Reader for Routledge that will examine the conceptual frameworks that would allow international film history to be understood as a transnational practice. |
