Encounters with the Other: Transcultural Possibilities in the Wachowskis’ and Tykwer’s Cloud Atlas

Works Cited

Akın, Fatih, director. Auf der Anderen Seite [English: The Edge of Heaven]. Anka Film, 2007.Search in Google Scholar

Ang, Ien. On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West. Routledge, 2001.Search in Google Scholar

Ansen, David. Does Cloud Atlas Soar? 22 October 2012. http://europe.newsweek.com/cloud-atlas-attempts-soar-megawatt-cast-65265?rm=eu.Search in Google Scholar

Antor, Heinz. “Multikulturalismus, Interkulturalität und Transkulturalität: Perspektiven für interdisziplinäre Forschung und Lehre [English: Multiculturalism, Interculturality and Transculturality: Perspectives for Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching].” Inter- und Transkulturelle Studien: Theoretische Grundlagen und interdisziplinäre. Edited by Heinz Antor. Winter, 2006. pp. 25-39.Search in Google Scholar

Baccolini, Raffaella. “Utopia in Dystopia: Cloud Atlas.” Science Fiction and Film Television, vol. 9, no. 1, 2016, pp. 73-76.10.3828/sfftv.2016.4Search in Google Scholar

Barbour, Stephen, and Cathie Carmichael. Language and Nationalism in Europe. Oxford University Press, 2002.Search in Google Scholar

Bayer, Gerd. “Perpetual Apocalypses: David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and the Absence of Time.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 56, no. 4, 2015, pp. 345-354.Search in Google Scholar

Belton, John. American Cinema/American Culture. 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 2005.Search in Google Scholar

Benessaieh, Afef. “Multiculturalism, Interculturality, Transculturality.” Transcultural Americas. Edited by Afef Benessaieh. Ottawa University Press, 2010. pp. 11-38.10.2307/j.ctt1ch78hd.4Search in Google Scholar

Berghahn, Daniela and Claudia Sternberg. European Cinema in Motion: Migrant and Disaporic Film in Contemporary Europe. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010.10.1057/9780230295070_2Search in Google Scholar

Bhabha, Homi. The Location of Culture. Routledge, 1994.Search in Google Scholar

Bird, Antonia, director. Ravenous. Heyday Films, 1999.Search in Google Scholar

Boruchoff, David. “Indians, Cannibals, and Barbarians: Hernán Cortés and Early Modern Cultural Relativism.” Ethnohistory, vol. 62, no. 1, 2015, pp. 17-38.10.1215/00141801-2821657Search in Google Scholar

Box Office Mojo. Cloud Atlas. 17 May 2018. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=cloudatlas.htm.Search in Google Scholar

Brooks, James L., director. Spanglish. Gracie Films, 2004.Search in Google Scholar

Brown, Matthew, and Gabriel Paquette. Connections after Colonialism. Europe and Latin America in the 1820s. University of Alabama Press, 2013.Search in Google Scholar

Burnstein, Matthew, and Gaylyn Studlar. Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film. I.B. Tauris, 1997.Search in Google Scholar

Canclini, Nestor Garcia. Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity. Minnesota University Press, 1995.Search in Google Scholar

Césaire, Aime. Discourse on Colonialism. Monthly Review Press, 1972.Search in Google Scholar

Ceuterick, Maud. “Welcome, Le Havre and Un Cuento Chino: Visceral Cosmopolitanism and the Domestic Sphere.” Transnational Cinemas, vol. 5, no. 1, 2014, pp. 78-85.10.1080/20403526.2014.895225Search in Google Scholar

Chadha, Gurindher, director. Bend It Like Beckham. Kintop, 2002.Search in Google Scholar

Cloud Atlas Official. Synopsis. 2012. 17 May 2018. http://cloudatlas.warnerbros.com/about.Search in Google Scholar

Collin, Robbie. Cloud Atlas Review. 22 February 2012. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/9885703/Cloud-Atlas-review.Search in Google Scholar

Cornea, Christine. Science Fiction Cinema: Between Fantasy and Reality. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.10.3366/edinburgh/9780748624652.001.0001Search in Google Scholar

Davidson, Peter. Orwell and the Dispossessed. Penguin, 2001.Search in Google Scholar

Dunai, Marton. Hungary’s Orban Calls for Global Anti-migrant Alliance with an Eye on 2018 Elections. 18 February 2018. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-election-orban/hungarys-orban-calls-for-global-anti-migrant-alliance-with-eye-on-2018-elections-idUSKCN1G20PV.Search in Google Scholar

Eastwood, Clint, director, Gran Torino. Malpaso Productions, 2008.Search in Google Scholar

Economides, Louise. “Recycled Creatures and Rogue Genomes: Biotechnology in Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ and David Mitchell’s ‘Cloud Atlas’” Literature Compass, vol. 6, no. 3, 2009, pp. 615-631.10.1111/j.1741-4113.2009.00627.xSearch in Google Scholar

Edwards, Caroline. “Strange Transactions: Utopia, Transmigration and Time in Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas.” David Mitchell: Critical Essays. Edited by Sarah Dillion. Gylphi Limited, 2011.Search in Google Scholar

Ellingson, Terry. The Myth of the Noble Savage. California University Press, 2001.10.1525/9780520925922Search in Google Scholar

Elsaesser, Thomas. European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood. Amsterdam University Press, 2005.10.5117/9789053565940Search in Google Scholar

Epstein, Mikhail. “Transculture: A Broad Way between Globalism and Multiculturalism.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 68, no. 1, 2009, pp. 327–351.10.1111/j.1536-7150.2008.00626.xSearch in Google Scholar

Estrada, Gabriel. “Cloud Atlas’ Queer Tiki Kitsch: Polynesians, Settler Colonialism, and Sci-Fi Film.” Journal of Religion and Film, vol. 18, no. 2, 2014, pp. 1-34.Search in Google Scholar

Estevez-Saa, Margarita and Noemi Pereira-Ares. “Trauma and Transculturalism in Contemporary Fictional Memories of 9/11.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 57, no. 3, 2016, pp. 268-278.10.1080/00111619.2015.1078765Search in Google Scholar

Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Penguin, 1963.Search in Google Scholar

Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin White Masks. Pluto Press, 1967.Search in Google Scholar

Ferguson, Paul. “‘Me Eatee Him Up’ Cannibal Appetites in Cloud Atlas and Robinson Crusoe.” Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, vol, 19, no. 2, 2015, pp. 144-156.10.1080/14688417.2015.1022869Search in Google Scholar

Fernández Retamar, Roberto. “Caliban: Notes towards a Discussion of Culture in Our America.” The Massachusetts Review, vol. 15, no. 1/2, 1974, pp. 7-72.Search in Google Scholar

Foucault, Michel. The Archaeology of Knowledge. Vintage, 1969.Search in Google Scholar

Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. Harvester Press, 1980.Search in Google Scholar

Gallant, Paul. A Moriori Lesson. 11 April 2003. https://www.nationalreview.com/2003/04/moriori-lesson-paul-gallant/Search in Google Scholar

Gautam, Basu Thakur. Postcolonial Theory and Avatar. Bloomsbury, 2015.10.5040/9781501304903Search in Google Scholar

Geraghty, Lincoln. American Science Fiction Film and Television, Berg Publishers, 2009.10.5040/9781350103368Search in Google Scholar

Godawa, Brian. Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films with Wisdom and Discernment. Intervarsity Press, 2009.Search in Google Scholar

Guo, Ting. Cloud Atlas. Journal of Religion & Film, vol. 17, no. 2, 2013, pp. 1-7.Search in Google Scholar

Hall, Stuart. “The West and The Rest: Discourse and Power.” Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies. Edited by DonSearch in Google Scholar

Hubert, Stuart Hall, Kenneth Thompson and David Held. Blackwell Publishing, 1986.Search in Google Scholar

Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri. Empire. Harvard University Press, 2000.Search in Google Scholar

Haggis, Paul, director. Crash. Bob Yari Productions, 2004.Search in Google Scholar

Haggis, Jane. “White Women and Colonialism.” Gender and Imperialism. Edited by Clare Midgley. Manchester University Press, 2017.10.7765/9781526119681.00010Search in Google Scholar

Hemon, Alexsandar. Beyond the Matrix. 10 September 2012. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/09/10/beyond-the-matrix.Search in Google Scholar

Hensleigh, Jonathan, director. Welcome to the Jungle. Bauer Martinez Productions, 2007.Search in Google Scholar

Hird, Alison. Breaking the law to help immigrants, a French film sparks controversy. 27 March 2009. http://www1.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/111/article_3303.asp.Search in Google Scholar

Hoad, Phil. Cloud Atlas: How Hollywood Failed to put it on the Map. 20 February 2013. https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/feb/20/cloud-atlas-warner-bros.Search in Google Scholar

Huggan, Graham. “Derailing the ‘Trans’? Postcolonial Studies and the Negative Effects of Speed.” Inter- und Transkulturelle Studien: Theoretische Grundlagen und Interdisziplinäre Praxi. Edited by Heinz Antor. Winter, 2008.Search in Google Scholar

Indiewire. The Most Polarizing Film Of The Year? What Did You Think Of Cloud Atlas? 29 October 2012. http://www.indiewire.com/2012/10/the-most-polarizing-film-of-the-year-what-did-you-think-of-cloud-atlas-104762/.Search in Google Scholar

Jara, Rene and Nicholas Spadaccini. Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus. University of Minnesota Press, 1992.Search in Google Scholar

Kall, Rob. Review: Cloud Atlas Is a Superb Movie With a Strong Political Values Message. 29 October 2012. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-kall/cloud-atlas-review_b_2039548.html.Search in Google Scholar

Kane, Brad. Cloud Atlas One Year Later: Why 2012’s Biggest Flop is Also its Biggest Triumph. 23 October 2013. http://www.tor.com/2013/10/23/story-worlds-cloud-atlas.Search in Google Scholar

Kaurismäki, Aki, director. Le Harve. Sputnik, 2011.Search in Google Scholar

Kaveney, Rozi. Strange Horizons: Avatar. 4 January 2010. http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2010/01/avatar.Search in Google Scholar

King, Geoff. American Independent Cinema. I.B. Taurus, 2005.10.5040/9780755698912Search in Google Scholar

Korte, Gregory, and Alan Gomez. Trump Ramps up Rhetoric on Undocumented Migrants: “These Aren’t People, They’re Animals. 16 May 2018. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/16/trump-immigrants-animals-mexico-democrats-sanctuary-cities/617252002/.10.21557/DSP.51932627Search in Google Scholar

Lewis, Jeff. “From Culturalism to Transculturalism.” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 1 2002, pp. 14-32.10.17077/2168-569X.1003Search in Google Scholar

Lioret, Philippe, director. Welcome. Nord-Ouest Productions/Studio 37, 2009.Search in Google Scholar

Loomba, Ania. Colonialism and Postcolonialism. Routledge, 1998.Search in Google Scholar

Ludwig, Edward, director. Caribbean Gold. Paramount Pictures. 1952.Search in Google Scholar

Memmi, Albert. The Coloniser and the Colonised. Beacon Press, 1965.Search in Google Scholar

Michener, James. Tales of the South Pacific. Macmillan, 1947.Search in Google Scholar

Mintzer, Jordan. Cloud Atlas Review. Hollywood Reporter, vol. 51, 11 September 2012. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/cloud-atlas-toronto-review-368919.Search in Google Scholar

Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas. Sceptre, 2004.Search in Google Scholar

Monaco, James. How To Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media and Multimedia. Oxford University Press, (2000) [1977].Search in Google Scholar

Montxo Armendáriz, director. Letters from Alou. Elias Querejeta Producciones Cinematográficas S.L./Televisión Española (TVE), 1990.Search in Google Scholar

Mostow, Jonathan, director. U-571. Dino De Laurentiis Company, 2000.Search in Google Scholar

Ng, Lynda. “Cannibalism, Colonialism and Apocalypse in Mitchell’s Global Future.” SubStance, vol. 44, no. 1, 2015, pp. 107-122.10.1353/sub.2015.0014Search in Google Scholar

Nishime, Leilani. “Whitewashing Yellow Futures in Ex Machina, Cloud Atlas, and Advantageous: Gender, Labor and Technology in Sci-Fi Film.” Journal of Asian American Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, 2017, pp. 29-49.10.1353/jaas.2017.0003Search in Google Scholar

Ortiz, Fernando. Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar. Translated by Harriet de Onis. Duke University Press, 1995Search in Google Scholar

Pereira-Ares, Noemí. “Transculturalism and Cultural Translation in Cauvery Madhavan’s Paddy Indian.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 51, no. 4, 2015, pp. 476-489.10.1080/17449855.2015.1049373Search in Google Scholar

Ramalingam, Vidhya. The European Far-right is on the Rise, Again. 13 February 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/13/european-far-right-on-the-rise-how-to-tackle.Search in Google Scholar

Rieder, John. Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction Film. Wesleyan University Press, 2008.Search in Google Scholar

Rings, Guido. “Throwing Off the Shackles of Colonialism? Continuities and Discontinuities from Daniel Defoe’s Literary Work to Robert Zemeckis’s Cast Away.” Anglistik, vol. 22, no. 2, 2011.Search in Google Scholar

Rings, Guido. The Other in Contemporary Migrant Cinema: Imagining a New Europe? Routledge, 2016.10.4324/9781315668086Search in Google Scholar

Robinson, Douglas. Translation and Empire: Postcolonial Theories Explained. St. Jerome Publishing, 1997.Search in Google Scholar

Robinson, Tasha. The Wachowskis Explain How Cloud Atlas Unplugs People from The Matrix. 25 October 2012. http://www.avclub.com/article/the-wachowskis-explain-how-icloud-atlasi-unplugs-p-87900.Search in Google Scholar

Rodek, Hanns-Georg. Der 100.000.000 Dollar Film. 22 June 2013. https://www.welt.de/channels-extern/ipad_2/kultur_ipad_2/article13443685/Der-100-000-000-Dollar-Film.html.Search in Google Scholar

Ryan, Micheal, and Melissa Lenos. An Introduction to Film Analysis: Technique and Meaning in Narrative Film. Continuum, 2012.10.5040/9781501351105Search in Google Scholar

Saad, Gad. Multiculturalism: A Failed Policy. 21 October 2012. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/homo-consumericus/201210/multiculturalism-failed-policy.Search in Google Scholar

Said, Edward. Orientalism. Routledge, 1978.Search in Google Scholar

Said, Edward. The World, The Text and The Critic. Vintage, 1991.Search in Google Scholar

Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. Vintage, 1994.Search in Google Scholar

Sanchez, Tani Dianca. “Neo-abolitionists, Colorblind Epistemologies and Black Politics: The Matrix Trilogy.” The Persistence of Whiteness: Race and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema. Edited by Daniel Bernardi. Routledge, 2008.Search in Google Scholar

Sandercock, Leonie. “Difference, Fear and Habitus: A Political Economy of Urban Fears.” Habitus: A Sense of Place. Edited by Jean Hillier and Emma Rooksby. Ashgate, 2005.Search in Google Scholar

Schein, Louisa. “Gran Torino’s Hmong Lead Bee Vang on Film, Race and Masculinity: Conversations with Louisa Schein.” Hmong Studies Journal, vol. 11, 2010, pp.1-11.Search in Google Scholar

Sci-Fi London. Cloud Atlas Cast Interviews, 26 June 2013. https://sci-fi-london.com/news/television/blu-ray/2013/06/cloud-atlas-cast-interviews.Search in Google Scholar

Schoedsack, Merian and Edgar Cooper, directors. King Kong. RKO Radio Pictures, 1933.Search in Google Scholar

Shankar, Shalinki. “Decolonization.” Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Edited by John Hawley. Greenwood, 2001.Search in Google Scholar

Shohat, Ella, and Robert Stam. Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media. Routledge, 1994.Search in Google Scholar

Spielberg, Steven, director. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Paramount Pictures, 1981.Search in Google Scholar

Thompson, John Lee, director. King Solomon’s Mines. Paramount Pictures, 1985.Search in Google Scholar

Torreblanca, José Ignacio and Mark Leonard. The Continent-wide Rise of Euroscepticism. 2013. 16 May 2018. Euroscepticihttp://www.ecfr.eu/page/-/ECFR79_EUROSCEPTICISM_BRIEF_AW.pdf.Search in Google Scholar

Trinder, Stephen, “Capitalism with a human face? Neoliberal ideology in Neil Blomkamp’s District 9.” Film-Philosophy, vol. 23, no. 1, 2019, pp. 1-16.10.3366/film.2019.0095Search in Google Scholar

Trust, Chatham Islands Enterprise. Weather and Clothing. 28 May 2018. http://www.discoverthechathamislands.co.nz/visit/weather/.Search in Google Scholar

Valesi, Marco. “A Colonial Western (Gran Torino) Versus a Mimetic Parable (Invictus).” Peripheral Transmodernities: South-to-South Intercultural Dialogues Between the Luso-Hispanic World and “the Orient”. Edited by Ignacio Lopez-Calvo. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. pp. 317-332.Search in Google Scholar

Veracini, L. “District 9 and Avatar: Science Fiction and Settler Colonialism.” Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol. 32, no. 4, 2011, pp. 355-367.10.1080/07256868.2011.584614Search in Google Scholar

Vilas Bohlman, Philip. Focus: Music, Nationalism and the Making of New Europe. 2nd ed., Routledge, 2011.10.4324/9780203844496Search in Google Scholar

Von Jana, Haase. Bestsellerverfilmung ‘Wolkenatlas’ Begeistert Testpublikum. 19 May 2012. http://www.pnn.de/potsdam/649194/.Search in Google Scholar

von Tunzelmann, Alex. U-571: You Give Historical Films a Bad Name. 26 Feb 2009. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/feb/25/u-571-reel-history.Search in Google Scholar

Wachowski, Andy, and Larry Wachowski, directors. The Matrix. Village Roadshow Pictures, 1999.Search in Google Scholar

Wachowski, Andy, and Larry Wachowski, directors. The Matrix Reloaded. Village Roadshow Pictures, 2003a.Search in Google Scholar

Wachowski, Andy, and Larry Wachowski, directors. The Matrix Revolutions. Village Roadshow Pictures, 2003b.Search in Google Scholar

Wachowski, Andy, Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer, directors. Cloud Atlas. Cloud Atlas Production/X-Filme Creative Pool, 2012.Search in Google Scholar

Wachowski, Andy, and Lana Wachowski, directors. Jupiter Ascending. Village Roadshow Pictures, 2015.Search in Google Scholar

Ware, Vron. Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History. Verso, 1992.Search in Google Scholar

Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca. “The Postcolonial Hybrid: Neill Blomkamp’s District 9.” Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance. Edited by Peter Hulme and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower. Routledge, 2014.Search in Google Scholar

Welsch, Wolfgang. “The Puzzling Form of Cultures Today.” Edited by Mike Featherstone and Scott Lash. Spaces of Culture: City, Nation, World. Sage, 1999, pp. 194-213.10.4135/9781446218723.n11Search in Google Scholar

Welsch, Wolfgang.”Transkulturalität. Zur veränderten Verfassung heutiger” [English: Transculturality. The Changing State of Cultures Today]. Hybride Kulturen. Medien–Netze–Künste. Edited by Irmel Schneider and Christian W. Thomson. Wienand, 1997, pp. 67-90.Search in Google Scholar