World on Film An Introduction
ISBN: 9781405139793 | 140513979X
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 2/22/2010
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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. Offers an overview of film culture in European countries such as France, Sweden and Spain, as well as Africa, Hong Kong, China, and India, in a clear and conversational style to engage the student reader Provides a detailed exploration of the impact of globalization on international cinemaAddre... MORE
| Acknowledgments | |
| How to Use This Book | |
| Nations Make Movies | |
| Introduction: Other Languages, Other Stories | |
| The Point, So Far | |
| Talking about International Film | |
| National Film Cultures | |
| Questions in the Chapters | |
| Summary | |
| For Further Thought | |
| Projects | |
| Further Re... MORE | |
| France: French Revolutions at the Movies | |
| The Movies Are Born in France | |
| CASE STUDY: JEAN RENOIR | |
| Renoirs Peers and the Golden Age of French Cinema | |
| For Further Thought | |
| Projects | |
| The Fourth and Fifth Republics and the Prologue to the New Wave | |
| The New Wave | |
| Case Study: Jean-Luc Godard | |
| Beyond the New Wave | |
| For Further Thought: Dogme 95 | |
| Mini Research Mission | |
| Projects | |
| Further Reading | |
| Russia: Utopia and Dystopia | |
| The Russian Revolution and the Golden Age of Soviet Cinema | |
| Stalinism and the Ebb and Resurgence of Soviet Cinema | |
| For Further Thought | |
| Projects | |
| New Freedoms | |
| Case Study: Andrei Tarkovsky | |
| Post-Soviet Cinema | |
| Mini Research Mission | |
| For Further Thought | |
| Projects | |
| Further Reading | |
| Germany: From Darkness Toward Light | |
| Early History | |
| For Further Thought | |
| Projects | |
| Nazi Cinema and Beyond | |
| Case Study: Werner Herzog | |
| New German Cinema and the International Community | |
| Mini Research Mission | |
| For Further Thought: East German Cinema | |
| Projects | |
| Further Reading | |
| Italy: The Myth of History, Neorealism, and Beyond | |
| Italian Cinema and the Risorgimento | |
| The Evolution of Neorealism | |
| For Further Thought | |
| Projects | |
| Case Study: Federico Fellini | |
| Debating Italian Postwar Recovery | |
| Mini Research Mission | |
| For Further Thinking | |
| Projects | |
| Further Reading | |
| Japan: | |
| Screening Modernism and Feudalism | |
| Early Film in Japan | |
| Meiji Era and Taisho Era Japanese Cinema | |
| Film During the Showa Era | |
| Case Study: Akira Kurosawa | |
| For Further Thought | |
| Projects | |
| The New Wave and Beyond | |
| Mini Research Mission | |
| For Further Thought | |
| Projects | |
| Further Reading | |
| India: Cinema of Composition and Contradiction | |
| Film in Colonial India | |
| Early Postcolonial Indian Film | |
| For Further Thought | |
| Projects | |
| Bollywood Takes Charge | |
| Case Study: Amitabh Bachchan | |
| Bollywood and Parallel Cinema | |
| Mini Research Mission | |
| For Further Thought | |
| Projects | |
| Further Reading | |
| Moviemaking In The Global Village | |
| Introduction: They Do It Their Way | |
| When Is a Film Foreign? | |
| Reading Movies in the Global Village | |
| Culture under a Microscope: A Modern Muddle or a New Mirror? | |
| Mini Research Mission | |
| For Further Thought | |
| Projects | |
| Further Reading | |
| Spain: Luis Buńuel, Playing with Ideas | |
| The Arc of Buńuels Career | |
| Conclusion | |
| Mini Research Mission | |
| For Further Thought | |
| Projects | |
| Further Reading | |
| Sweden: Ingmar Bergman, Being and Nothingness | |
| The Arc of Bergman's Career | |
| Conclusion | |
| Mini Research Mission | |
| For Further Thought | |
| Projects | |
| Further Reading | |
| Hong Kong: Wong Kar-wai, Now You See It | |
| The Arc of Wongs Career | |
| Conclusion | |
| Mini Research Mission | |
| For Further Thought | |
| Projects | |
| Further Reading | |
| Senegal: Ousmane Sembčne, Postcolonial Pioneer | |
| The Arc of Sembčnes Career | |
| Conclusion | |
| Mini Research Mission | |
| For Further Thought | |
| Projects | |
| Further Reading | |
| Mainland China: Jia Zhangke, Freedom and the Sixth Generation | |
| The Arc of Jias Career | |
| Conclusion | |
| Mini Research Mission | |
| For Further Thought | |
| Projects | |
| Further Reading | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
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Martha P. Nochimson is currently an Associate Editor for Cineaste Magazine. She has taught in the Department of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and at Mercy College, where she developed and chaired a program in Film Studies, and is the author of many books, including her internationally acclaimed studies The Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Hollywood (1997), and Dying to Belong: Gangster Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007). Further information is available at her website www.marthapnochimson.com.
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