Screening world cinema : a Screen reader / edited by Catherine Grant and Annette Kuhn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grant, Catherine, 1964-

Kuhn, Annette.

Series:

Screen readers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xiii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

Screening World Cinema: A Screen Reader brings together a selection of key articles on world cinema published over the past two decades in the internationally renowned journal Screen.

This new collection allows readers to cross-reference the wide-ranging debates on world cinema that have been pursued and developed across many issues of the journal. Themes addressed include: the problem of defining 'World Cinema'; the relationship between 'First' and 'Third' cinemas and criticisms; issues of modernity and modernization; and melodrama as a national and transnational cinematic mode. Screening World Cinema also features chapters on important contemporary world cinemas - New Iranian, Latin American and Chinese cinemas among them - as they negotiate issues of globalization and cultural and political modernity; as well as a complete listing of articles and other items on world cinema published in Screen since 1976.

Contents:

Screening world cinema / Annette Kuhn and Catherine Grant

Marginal cinemas and mainstream critical theory / Julianne Burton-Carvajal

Colonialism and 'law and order' criticism / Teshome H. Gabriel

A screen of one's own : early cinema in Québec and the public sphere, 1906-1928 / Scott MacKenzie

If looks could kill : image wars in María Candelaria / Andrea Noble

Pictures of the past in the present : modernity, femininity and stardom in the postwar films of Ozu Yasujiro / Alastair Phillips

The melodramatic mode and the commercial Hindi cinema / Ravi Vasudevan

Avenging women in Indian cinema / Lalitha Gopalan

Narratives of resistance : national identity and ambivalence in the Turkish melodrama between 1965 and 1975 / Nezih Erdoǧan

The open image : poetic realism and the new Iranian cinema / Shohini Chaudhuri and Howard Finn

Signs of angst and hope : history and melodrama in Chinese fifth-generation cinema / Ning Ma

Affecting legacies : historical memory and contemporary structures of feeling in Madagascar and Amores perros / Laura Podalsky.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415384281

041538429X

OCLC:

61879722

Publisher Number:

9780415384285 (hbk)

9780415384292 (pbk)