East Asian Film Noir

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• Film noir has been understood as a genre exclusive to Hollywood. But classical US noir's downbeat sensibility also finds expression in later films fro... Lees meer

The Cinema of Jia Zhangke

Cecília Mello

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• Shorlisted for the BAFTSS 2020 Award for Best Monograph Starting out as an independent filmmaker, and despite his films being subjected to censorship ... Lees meer

East Asian Cinemas

Leon Hunt, Leung Wing-Fai

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• Cinemas from East Asia are among the most exciting and influential in the world. They are attracting popular and critical attention on a global scale,... Lees meer

Impure Cinema

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• Impure Cinema goes back to Bazin's original title precisely for its defence of impurity, applying it on the one hand to cinema's interbreeding with ot... Lees meer

Latin American Women Filmmakers

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• Latin American women filmmakers have achieved unprecedented international prominence in recent years. Notably political in their approach, figures suc... Lees meer

Performing Authorship

Cecilia Sayad

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• The figure of the auteur continues to haunt the study of film, resisting both the poststructuralist charges that pointed to its absence and the histor... Lees meer

Performing Authorship

Cecilia Sayad

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• The figure of the auteur continues to haunt the study of film, resisting both the poststructuralist charges that pointed to its absence and the histor... Lees meer

Popular Ethiopian Cinema

Michael W Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• This book shines much-needed light on the history, structures and films of the Amharic film industry in Ethiopia. Focusing on the rise of the industry... Lees meer

Animation in the Middle East

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• The internationally acclaimed films Persepolis and Waltz with Bashir only hinted at the vibrant animation culture that exists within the Middle East a... Lees meer

Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema

James S Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• Since the beginnings of African cinema, the realm of beauty on screen has been treated with suspicion by directors and critics alike. James S. William... Lees meer

Theorizing World Cinema

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• This innovative book is about the place of world cinema in the cultural imaginary. It also repositions world cinema in a wider discursive space than i... Lees meer

East Asian Cinemas

Leon Hunt, Leung Wing-Fai

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• Cinemas from East Asia are among the most exciting and influential in the world. They are attracting popular and critical attention on a global scale,... Lees meer

Realism in Greek Cinema

Vrasidas Karalis

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• The history of Greek cinema post-1945 is best understood through the stories of its most internationally celebrated and influential directors. Focusin... Lees meer

There's No Place Like Home

Stephanie Hemelryk Donald

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2018 The Wizard of Oz brought many now-iconic tropes into popular culture: the yellow brick road, ruby slippers and ... Lees meer

The Spanish Fantastic

Shelagh Rowan-Legg

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• In recent decades, the Spanish 'fantastic' has been at the forefront of genre filmmaking. Films such as The Day of the Beast, the Rec trilogy, The Orp... Lees meer

The Film Archipelago

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• How do the islands and archipelagos of the New World figure in Latin American cinema? Comprising 15 essays and a critical introduction, The Film Archi... Lees meer

Realism in Greek Cinema

Vrasidas Karalis

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• The history of Greek cinema post-1945 is best understood through the stories of its most internationally celebrated and influential directors. Focusin... Lees meer

East Asian Film Noir

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• Film noir has been understood as a genre exclusive to Hollywood. But classical US noir's downbeat sensibility also finds expression in later films fro... Lees meer

Lebanese Cinema

Lina Khatib

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• Modern Lebanese cinema can best be explored in the context of the Civil War, in part because almost all the Lebanese films made since its outset in 19... Lees meer

Pablo Trapero and the Politics of Violence

Douglas Mulliken

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• This innovative study finds that, through his unique representation of violence, Argentine director Pablo Trapero has established himself as one of th... Lees meer

There's No Place Like Home

Stephanie Hemelryk Donald

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2018 The Wizard of Oz brought many now-iconic tropes into popular culture: the yellow brick road, ruby slippers and ... Lees meer

Cinema in the Arab World

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• Cinema in the Arab world has been the subject of varied and rigorous studies, but most have focused on films as text, providing in-depth analyses of p... Lees meer

Brazilian Cinema and the Aesthetics of Ruins

Guilherme Carréra

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• Guilherme Carréra's compelling book examines imagery of ruins in contemporary Brazilian cinema and considers these representations in the context of B... Lees meer

New Argentine Cinema

Jens Andermann

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• Argentine filmmaking from the mid-1990s to the present has enjoyed worldwide success. New Argentine Cinema explores this cinema in order to discover t... Lees meer