World Cinema

Author : Shekhar Deshpande,Meta Mazaj
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136473180

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World Cinema by Shekhar Deshpande,Meta Mazaj Pdf

World Cinema: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to film industries across the globe. From the 1980s onwards, new technologies and increased globalization have radically altered the landscape in which films are distributed and exhibited. Films are made from the large-scale industries of India, Hollywood, and Asia, to the small productions in Bhutan and Morocco. They are seen in multiplexes, palatial art cinemas in Cannes, traveling theatres in rural India, and on millions of hand-held mobile screens. Authors Deshpande and Mazaj have developed a method of charting this new world cinema that makes room for divergent perspectives, traditions, and positions, while also revealing their interconnectedness and relationships of meaning. In doing so, they bring together a broad range of issues and examples—theoretical concepts, viewing and production practices, film festivals, large industries such as Nollywood and Bollywood, and smaller and emerging film cultures—into a systemic yet flexible map of world cinema. The multi-layered approach of this book aims to do justice to the depth, dynamism, and complexity of the phenomenon of world cinema. For students looking to films outside of their immediate context, this book offers a blueprint that will enable them to transform a casual encounter with a film into a systematic inquiry into world cinema.

Author : Christina Gerhardt,Sara Saljoughi
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814342947

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1968 and Global Cinema by Christina Gerhardt,Sara Saljoughi Pdf

Examines the political cinema of 1968 in relation to global events.

Author : Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198742425

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The Oxford History of World Cinema by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith Pdf

Featuring nearly three thousand film stills, production shots, and other illustrations, an authoritative history of the cinema traces the development of the medium, its filmmakers and stars, and the evolution of national cinemas around the world

Author : Blandine Stefanson,Sheila Petty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : 1783203919

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Directory of World Cinema by Blandine Stefanson,Sheila Petty Pdf

Author : Linda Badley,R. Barton Palmer,Steven Jay Schneider
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813538742

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Traditions in World Cinema by Linda Badley,R. Barton Palmer,Steven Jay Schneider Pdf

The core volume in the Traditions in World Cinema series, this book brings together a colourful and wide-ranging collection of world cinematic traditions - national, regional and global - all of which are in need of introduction, investigation and, in some cases, critical reassessment. Topics include: German expressionism, Italian neorealism, French New Wave, British new wave, Czech new wave, Danish Dogma, post-Communist cinema, Brazilian post-Cinema Novo, new Argentine cinema, pre-revolutionary African traditions, Israeli persecution films, new Iranian cinema, Hindi film songs, Chinese wenyi.

Author : Shohini Chaudhuri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UOM:39015064691713

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Contemporary World Cinema by Shohini Chaudhuri Pdf

This book provides an overview of the cinemas of Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and South Asia, interpreting some of the recent developments as strategic responses to globalisation. Highlighting transnational and cross-cultural structures, influences and themes.

Author : Bob Nowlan,Zach Finch
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781783203956

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Directory of World Cinema: Scotland by Bob Nowlan,Zach Finch Pdf

Scotland, its people and its history have long been a source of considerable fascination and inspiration for filmmakers, film scholars and film audiences worldwide. A significant number of critically acclaimed films made in the last twenty-five years have ignited passionate conversations and debates about Scottish national cinema. Its historical, industrial and cultural complexities and contradictions have made it all the more a focus of attention and interest for both popular audiences and scholarly critics. Directory of World Cinema: Scotland provides an introduction to many of Scottish cinema’s most important and influential themes and issues, films and filmmakers, while adding to the ongoing discussion concerning how to make sense of Scotland’s cinematic traditions and contributions. Chapters on filmmakers range from Murray Grigor to Ken Loach, and Gaelic filmmaking, radical and engaged cinema, production, finance and documentary are just a few of the topics explored. Film reviews range from popular box office hits such as Braveheart, and Trainspotting to lesser known but equally engaging independent and lower budget productions, such as Shell and Orphans. This book is both a stimulating and accessible resource for a wide range of readers interested in Scottish film.

Author : Stephanie Dennison,Song Hwee Lim
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1904764622

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Remapping World Cinema by Stephanie Dennison,Song Hwee Lim Pdf

"Covering a broad scope, this collection examines the cinemas of Europe, East Asia, India, Africa and Latin America, and will be of interest to scholars and students of film studies, cultural studies and postcolonial studies, as well as to film enthusiasts keen to explore a wider range of world cinema."--Jacket.

Author : Parviz Jahed
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783204717

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Directory of World Cinema: Iran 2 by Parviz Jahed Pdf

Working at the intersection of religion and ever-shifting political, economic and social environments, Iranian cinema has produced some of the most critically lauded films in the world today. The first volume in the Directory of World Cinema: Iran turned the spotlight on the award-winning cinema of Iran, with particular attention to the major genres and movements, historical turning points and prominent figures that have helped shape it. Considering a wide range of genres, including Film Farsi, New Wave, war film, art house film and women’s cinema, the book was greeted with enthusiasm by film studies scholars, students working on alternative or national cinema and fans and aficionados of Iranian film. Building on the momentum and influence of its predecessor, Directory of World Cinema: Iran 2 will be welcomed by all seeking an up-to-date and comprehensive guide to Iranian cinema.

Author : Adam Bingham
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781783205097

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Directory of World Cinema: India by Adam Bingham Pdf

Indian cinema teems with a multitude of different voices. The Directory of World Cinema: India provides a broad overview of this rich variety, highlighting distinctions among India’s major cinematic genres and movements while illuminating the field as a whole. This volume’s contributors – many of them leading experts in the fields – approach film in India from a variety of angles, furnishing in-depth essays on significant directors and major regions; detailed historical accounts; considerations of the many faces of India represented in Indian cinema; and explorations of films made in and about India by European directors including Jean Renoir, Peter Brook, and Powell and Pressburger. Taken together, these multifaceted contributions show how India’s varied local film industries throw into question the very concept of a national cinema. The resulting volume will provide a comprehensive introduction for newcomers to Indian cinema while offering a fresh perspective sure to interest seasonal students and scholars.

Author : William V. Costanzo
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118712924

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World Cinema through Global Genres by William V. Costanzo Pdf

World Cinema through Global Genres introduces the complex forces of global filmmaking using the popular concept of film genre. The cluster-based organization allows students to acquire a clear understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world. Innovative pedagogical approach that uses genres to teach the more unfamiliar subject of world cinema A cluster-based organization provides a solid framework for students to acquire a sharper understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world A “deep focus” section in each chapter gives students information and insights about important regions of filmmaking (India, China, Japan, and Latin America) that tend to be underrepresented in world cinema classes Case studies allow students to focus on important and accessible individual films that exemplify significant traditions and trends A strong foundation chapter reviews key concepts and vocabulary for understanding film as an art form, a technology, a business, an index of culture, a social barometer, and a political force. The engaging style and organization of the book make it a compelling text for both world cinema and film genre courses

Author : Karl Schoonover,Rosalind Galt
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822373674

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Queer Cinema in the World by Karl Schoonover,Rosalind Galt Pdf

Proposing a radical vision of cinema's queer globalism, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how queer filmmaking intersects with international sexual cultures, geopolitics, and aesthetics to disrupt dominant modes of world making. Whether in its exploration of queer cinematic temporality, the paradox of the queer popular, or the deviant ecologies of the queer pastoral, Schoonover and Galt reimagine the scope of queer film studies. The authors move beyond the gay art cinema canon to consider a broad range of films from Chinese lesbian drama and Swedish genderqueer documentary to Bangladeshi melodrama and Bolivian activist video. Schoonover and Galt make a case for the centrality of queerness in cinema and trace how queer cinema circulates around the globe–institutionally via film festivals, online consumption, and human rights campaigns, but also affectively in the production of a queer sensorium. In this account, cinema creates a uniquely potent mode of queer worldliness, one that disrupts normative ways of being in the world and forges revised modes of belonging.

Author : Patricia White
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822376019

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Women’s Cinema, World Cinema by Patricia White Pdf

In Women’s Cinema, World Cinema, Patricia White explores the dynamic intersection of feminism and film in the twenty-first century by highlighting the work of a new generation of women directors from around the world: Samira and Hana Makhmalbaf, Nadine Labaki, Zero Chou, Jasmila Zbanic, and Claudia Llosa, among others. The emergence of a globalized network of film festivals has enabled these young directors to make and circulate films that are changing the aesthetics and politics of art house cinema and challenging feminist genealogies. Extending formal analysis to the production and reception contexts of a variety of feature films, White explores how women filmmakers are both implicated in and critique gendered concepts of authorship, taste, genre, national identity, and human rights. Women’s Cinema, World Cinema revitalizes feminist film studies as it argues for an alternative vision of global media culture.

Author : Jon Solomon,Robert D Novak Professor of Western Civilization and Culture Jon Solomon
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0300083378

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The Ancient World in the Cinema by Jon Solomon,Robert D Novak Professor of Western Civilization and Culture Jon Solomon Pdf

This entertaining and useful book provides a comprehensive survey of films about the ancient world, from The Last Days of Pompeii to Gladiator. Jon Solomon catalogues, describes, and evaluates films set in ancient Greece and Rome, films about Greek and Roman history and mythology, films of the Old and New Testaments, films set in ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Persia, films of ancient tragedies, comic films set in the ancient world, and more. The book has been updated to include feature films and made-for-television movies produced in the past two decades. More than two hundred photographs illustrate both the films themselves and the ancient sources from which their imagery derives.

Author : Rob Stone,Paul Cooke,Stephanie Dennison,Alex Marlow-Mann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317420583

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The Routledge Companion to World Cinema by Rob Stone,Paul Cooke,Stephanie Dennison,Alex Marlow-Mann Pdf

The Routledge Companion to World Cinema explores and examines a global range of films and filmmakers, their movements and audiences, comparing their cultural, technological and political dynamics, identifying the impulses that constantly reshape the form and function of the cinemas of the world. Each of the forty chapters provides a survey of a topic, explaining why the issue or area is important, and critically discussing the leading views in the area. Designed as a dynamic forum for forty-three world-leading scholars, this companion contains significant expertise and insight and is dedicated to challenging complacent views of hegemonic film cultures and replacing outmoded ideas about production, distribution and reception. It offers both a survey and an investigation into the condition and activity of contemporary filmmaking worldwide, often challenging long-standing categories and weighted—often politically motivated—value judgements, thereby grounding and aligning the reader in an activity of remapping which is designed to prompt rethinking.