| Description |
xi, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"The inspiration for this edited volume came from an international film conference held June 2002 at the University of Leeds entitled World cinemas: identity, politics, culture. As well as specially-commissioned pieces, a number of chapters have been based on papers delivered at the conference."--P. vii. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Situating world cinema as a theoretical problem / Stephanie Dennison, Song Hwee Lim -- An atlas of world cinema / Dudley Andrew -- Towards a positive definition of world cinema / Lúcia Nagib -- Latin American cinema : from underdevelopment to postmodernism / Michael Chanan -- Export mythology : primitivism and paternalism in Pasolini, Hopper and Herzog / Keith Richards -- Mother lands, sister nations : the epic, poetic, propaganda films of Cuba and the Basque country / Rob Stone -- The dialectics of transnational identity and female desire in four films of Claire Denis / Rosanna Maule -- Carnivalesque meets modernity in the films of Karl Valentin and Charlie Chaplin / David Robb -- The Bakhtinian headstands of East German cinema / Evelyn Preuss -- Shockumentary evidence : the perverse politics of the Mondo film / Mark Goodall -- 'Telling the truth can be a dangerous business' : stardom, race and Isabelle Adjani / Guy Austin -- The new Brazilian bombshell : Sônia Braga, race and cinema in the 1970s / Stephanie Dennison -- Canonising sexual image, devaluing gender performance : replacing the onnagata with female actresses in Japan's early cinema / Hideaki Fujiki -- Troubled masculinities : questioning gender and sexuality in Liu Bingjian's Nannan nünü (Men and women) / Louise Williams -- Orientalism or occidentalism? : dynamics of appropriation in Akira Kurosawa / Rachael Hutchinson -- Consuming 'Bollywood' in the global age : the strange case of an 'unfine' world cinema / Kaushik Bhaumik. |
| Genre/Form |
Motion pictures.
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Motion pictures.
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| Subject |
Intercultural communication in motion pictures.
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Intercultural communication in motion pictures. |
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects. |
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Politics in motion pictures.
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Politics in motion pictures. |
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Filmkunst. |
| Added Author |
Dennison, Stephanie.
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Lim, Song Hwee, 1965-
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World Cinemas: Identity, Politics, Culture (2002 : University of Leeds)
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| ISBN |
1904764622 paperback |
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9781904764625 paperback |
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1904764630 hardback |
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9781904764632 hardback |
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