Theorizing world cinema

Theorizing world cinema

by Dudrah, Rajinder Kumar Nagib, Lúcia Perriam, Chris

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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.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Theorizing world cinema / edited by Lúcia Nagib, Chris Perriam and Rajinder Dudrah.

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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):I.B. Tauris
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xxxii, 229 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781848854925, 1848854927, 9781848854932, 1848854935, 9780857721044, 0857721046
  • oclc:ocn767732438
  • LC Classification:PN1995
  • Dewey Decimal:791.43015

Table of 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.

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Subjects

Critique cinématographique Film criticism Films Kongress Motion pictures Performing arts

Writers

Dudrah, Rajinder Kumar Nagib, Lúcia Perriam, Chris

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