248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

Screening World Cinema brings together a selection of the best articles on the topic of world cinema published in the esteemed Screen journal. Available in one volume for the first time, this collection allows readers to cross-reference debates and essays that have ranged across many issues of Screen . Themes addressed include: the problem of defining ‘world cinema’... Read more

Illustration List.  Acknowledgments.  Notes on Contributors.  1. Screening World Cinema  Part 1: Views from Here and There  2. Marginal Cinemas and Mainstream Critical Theory: The Relationships between "Third World" Cinema and "First World" Criticism  3. Colonialism and "Law and Order" Criticism  Part 2: Modernity and Modernization  4. A Screen of One's Own: Early Cinema in Quebec and the Public Sphere 1906-28  5. If Looks Could Kill: Image Wars in Maria Candelaria  6. Pictures of the Past in the Present: Modernity, Femininity and Stardom in the Postwar Films of Ozu Yasujiro  Part 3: Melodrama as a National and Transnational Mode  7. The Melodramatic Mode and the Commercial Hindi Cinema: Notes on Film History, Narrative and Performance in the 1950s  8. Avenging Women in Indian Cinema  9. Narratives of Resistance: National Identity and Ambivalence in the Turkish Melodrama between 1965 and 1975  Part 4: Contemporary World Cinema and Critical Theory  10. The Open Image: Poetic Realism and the New Iranian Cinema  11. Signs of Angst and Hope: History and Melodrama in Chinese Fifth-Generation Cinema  12. Affecting Legacies: Historical Memory and Contemporary Structures of Feeling in Madagascar and Amores Perros  Appendix

Biography

Catherine Grant, Annette Kuhn