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Screening world cinema : a screen reader / edited by Catherine Grant and Annette Kuhn.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Abingdon, [England] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2006.Description: xiii, 228 pISBN:
  • 9780415384292 (pbk.) :
  • 041538429X (pbk.) :
  • 0415384281 (hbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1994 .S435 2006
Contents:
Screening world cinema / Annette Kuhn and Catherine Grant -- Marginal cinemas and mainstream critical theory / Julianne Burton-Carvajal -- Colonialism and law and order criticism / Teshome H. Gabriel -- A screen of one's own : early cinema in Quebec and the public sphere, 1906-1928 / Scott MacKenzie -- If looks could kill : image wars in Maria Candelaria / Andrea Noble -- Pictures of the past in the present : modernity, femininity and stardom in the postwar films of Ozu Yasujiro / Alastair Phillips -- The melodramatic mode and the commercial Hindi cinema / Ravi Vasudevan -- Avenging women in Indian cinema / Lalitha Gopalan -- Narratives of resistance : national identity and ambivalence in the Turkish melodrama between 1965 and 1975 / Nezih Erdogan -- The open image : poetic realism and the new Iranian cinema / Shohini Chaudhuri and Howard Finn -- Signs of angst and hope : history and melodrama in Chinese fifth-generation cinema / Ning Ma -- Affecting legacies : historical memory and contemporary structures of feeling in Madagascar and Amores perros / Laura Podalsky.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Screening world cinema / Annette Kuhn and Catherine Grant -- Marginal cinemas and mainstream critical theory / Julianne Burton-Carvajal -- Colonialism and law and order criticism / Teshome H. Gabriel -- A screen of one's own : early cinema in Quebec and the public sphere, 1906-1928 / Scott MacKenzie -- If looks could kill : image wars in Maria Candelaria / Andrea Noble -- Pictures of the past in the present : modernity, femininity and stardom in the postwar films of Ozu Yasujiro / Alastair Phillips -- The melodramatic mode and the commercial Hindi cinema / Ravi Vasudevan -- Avenging women in Indian cinema / Lalitha Gopalan -- Narratives of resistance : national identity and ambivalence in the Turkish melodrama between 1965 and 1975 / Nezih Erdogan -- The open image : poetic realism and the new Iranian cinema / Shohini Chaudhuri and Howard Finn -- Signs of angst and hope : history and melodrama in Chinese fifth-generation cinema / Ning Ma -- Affecting legacies : historical memory and contemporary structures of feeling in Madagascar and Amores perros / Laura Podalsky.

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