Storytelling in world cinemas. Volume 2 : contexts / edited by Lina Khatib.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khatib, Lina, Author.

Contributor:

Khatib, Lina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Plots, themes, etc.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Wallflower Press Book, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Storytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 2: Contexts addresses the questions of what and why particular stories are told in films around the world, both in terms of the forms of storytelling used, and of the political, religious, historical, and social contexts informing cinematic storytelling. Drawing on films from all five continents, the book approaches storytelling from a cultural/historical multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on the influence of cultural politics, postcolonialism, women's social and cultural positions, and religious contexts on film stories. Like its sister volume, Storytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 1: Forms, this book is an innovative addition to the academic study of world cinemas.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction To Volume Two / Khatib, Lina

Storytelling and Cultural Politics

stories as social critique: the Vision of china in the Films of Jia Zhangke / Ng, Konrad

Taonga (cultural treasures): reflections on Maori storytelling in the cinema of Aotearoa/new Zealand / Joyce, Hester

The Minjung Cultural Movement and Korean Cinema of the 1980s: The Influence of Minjung theatre and Art in Lee Jang-ho's Films / Lee, Nam

On How to Tell a Revolution: Alsino y el Cóndor / Dash, Robert / Varas, Patricia

Storytelling and Postcolonialism

Telling Stories About Unknown People in Faraway Countries: us Travelogues About Mexico in the 1930S and 1940S / Arredondo, Isabel

Memory And Tradition as a Postcolonial Response in the Films of Kyrgyzstan'S Aktan Abdykalykov / Mullins, Willow

'Postcolonial Beaux' Stratagem: Singing and Dancing Back with Carmen in African Films / Beus, Yifen T.

Telling Women'S Stories

Heard/Symbolic Voices: The Nouba of the Women of Mont Chenoua and Women'S Film in the Maghreb / Salhi, Zahia Smail

Women'S Stories and Public Space in Iranian new Wave Film / Dempsey, Anna M.

Cinematic Images of Women at a Time of National(Ist) Crisis: The Case of Three Yugoslav Films / Jelaca, Dijana

History as Science Fiction: Women of Action in Hong Kong Cinema / Vojkovic, Saša

Storytelling and Religio-Cultural Encounters

Clouds Of Unknowing: Buddhism and Bhutanese Cinema / Chaudhuri, Shohini / Clayton, Sue

Claiming Space, Time and History in the Journals of Knud Rasmussen / Varga, Darrell

Qissa and Popular Hindi Cinema / Roy, Anjali Gera

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 19, 2014).

ISBN:

9780231850254

0231850255

OCLC:

979683336