Introduction : the terms of debate
Goethe and Weltliteratur
The theory of world literature
From world literature to alternative modernisms
The cosmopolitanism of the periphery
Columbus, el nuevo mundo, and postcolonial studies
French postcoloniality and literature-monde
Sibling disciplines : literary studies and cinema studies
From literature to film : a study in ambivalence
The cinema and the canon
The gains of (film) translation
Adaptation and cultural estrangement
Adaptation, remix, and the cultural commons
The international pre-history of world cinema
The emergence of world cinema
Transartistic convergences in the musical commons
Musical transmediality in the global south
The transnational turn
Transnational cinema
The coefficient of transnationality
Transnational reception, gender, and aesthetics
Transnational film schools and pedagogy
Minor cinema, the indigene, and the state
The rise of the "woods" : from Hollywood to Nollywood via Bollywood
Globalization, political economy, and the media
Acquatic tropologies
Technologies of intermedial flow
Globalization : mediatic resistance
Transoceanic currents : the red, black, and white Atlantic
Global indigeneity and the transnational gaze
The media"s "deep time" and the planetary commons
The commons and the globalized citizen
Terminological reflections
Toward a "trans" methodology.