World on film: an introduction

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"This uniquely engaging and lively textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to international film, from the golden age of European cinema to the contemporary blockbusters of India and Asia, and the post World War II emergence of global film culture."--Jacket

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Full title :World on film : an introduction / Martha P. Nochimson.

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Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Wiley-Blackwell
Place of Publication:Chichester, West Sussex, U.K
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

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Description:1 online resource (xi, 447 pages) : : illustrations

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ISBN:9781444358339, 1444358332
oclc:ocn773580148
LC Classification:PN1994
Dewey Decimal:792.09

Nations make movies. Introduction: other languages, other stories -- France: French revolutions at the movies -- Russia: utopia and dystopia -- Germany: from darkness toward light -- Italy: the myth of history, neorealism, and beyond -- Japan: screening feudalism and modernism -- India: cinema of combination and contradiction -- Moviemaking in the global village. Introduction: they do it their way -- Spain: Luis Buñuel, playing with ideas -- Sweden: Ingmar Bergman, being and nothingness -- Hong Kong: Wong Kar-Wai, now you see it-- -- Senegal: Ousmane Sembène, postcolonial pioneer -- Mainland China: Jia Zhangke, freedom and the sixth generation.