| Collation |
xxxii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Tauris world cinema series |
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Tauris world cinema series.
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| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I: The national project -- Morvern Callar, art cinema and the 'monstrous archive' / John Caughie -- On film and cathedrals: monumental art, national allegories and cultural warfare / Ismail Xavier -- A theory of cinema that can account for Indian cinema / Ashish Rajadhyaksha -- Part II: The transnational project -- Transnational cinemas: the cases of Mexico, Argentina and Brazil / Paul Julian Smith -- Eduardo Noriega's transnational projections / Chris Perriam -- From world cinema to world cinema: Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of time and Ashes of time redux / Felicia Chan -- Part III: The diasporic project -- Beyond world cinema? The dialectics of Black British diasporic cinema / Rajinder Dudrah -- Speaking in tongues: Ang Lee, accented cinema, Hollywood / Song Hwee Lim -- Part IV: The realist project -- From realism to neo-realism / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith -- Oshima, corporeal realism and the eroticized apparatus / Lúcia Nagib -- Realism of the senses: a tendency in contemporary world cinema / Tiago de Luca -- Rear-projection and the paradoxes of Hollywood realism / Laura Mulvey. |
| Summary |
This textbook for studies in the field re-places world cinema in the cultural imagery. It also repositions world cinema in a wider discursive space than hitherto and treats it as an object of theoretical enquiry, rather than as a commercial label. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures.
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Film criticism.
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| Alt Author |
Nagib, Lúcia, 1956-
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Perriam, Chris.
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Dudrah, Rajinder Kumar.
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| ISBN |
9781848854925 (hbk.) |
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1848854927 (hbk.) |
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9781848854932 (pbk.) |
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1848854935 (pbk.) |
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