Crossover cinema : a genealogical and conceptual overview

In reviewing and reconceptualising crossover cinema, this chapter attempts to locate it so that on the one hand, it is appropriately specific, while on the other hand emphasizing that it is both situated ad global by virtue of its ability to transgress genre, audience, and cultural borders. Such an approach foregrounds the production contexts within which crossover cinema is generated and also argues that the notion of "crossing over" best describes the personal/poetic and political border crossings being constantly undertaken and negotiated by filmmakers with cross-cultural affiliations and influences, and thereby manifested in the hybrid content and form, as well as the distribution and reception, of the films themselves.