World Cinema - Shekhar Deshpande, Meta Mazaj

World Cinema

A Critical Introduction
Buch | Hardcover
448 Seiten
2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-78356-9 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
This textbook offers a critical introduction to the topic of world cinema that explores the transition that has taken place since the 1980s.
World Cinema: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to film industries across the globe. From the 1980s onwards, new technologies and increased globalization have radically altered the landscape in which films are distributed and exhibited. Films are made from the large-scale industries of India, Hollywood, and Asia, to the small productions in Bhutan and Morocco. They are seen in multiplexes, palatial art cinemas in Cannes, traveling theatres in rural India, and on millions of hand-held mobile screens.

Authors Deshpande and Mazaj have developed a method of charting this new world cinema that makes room for divergent perspectives, traditions, and positions, while also revealing their interconnectedness and relationships of meaning. In doing so, they bring together a broad range of issues and examples—theoretical concepts, viewing and production practices, film festivals, large industries such as Nollywood and Bollywood, and smaller and emerging film cultures—into a systemic yet flexible map of world cinema.

The multi-layered approach of this book aims to do justice to the depth, dynamism, and complexity of the phenomenon of world cinema. For students looking to films outside of their immediate context, this book offers a blueprint that will enable them to transform a casual encounter with a film into a systematic inquiry into world cinema.

Shekhar Deshpande is Professor and Founding Chair of Media and Communication Department at Arcadia University, where he held Frank and Evelyn Steinbrucker Endowed Chair from 2005-2008. His writings have appeared in Senses of Cinema, Studies in European Cinema, Film International, Seminar and Widescreen. He is the author of the forthcoming Anthology Film and World Cinema. Meta Mazaj is Senior Lecturer in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her articles have appeared in Cineaste, Studies in Eastern European Cinema, and Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination. She is the author of National and Cynicism in the Post 1990s Balkan Cinema (2008), and co-editor, with Timothy Corrigan and Patricia White, of Critical Visions in Film Theory: Classic and Contemporary Readings (2010).

Introduction







What Is World Cinema?




Watching World Cinema




Film Production and Finance




Film Festivals and World Cinema




Indian Cinema and Bollywood




African Cinema and Nollywood




Asian Cinema




National Formations




Transnational Formations




Polyvalent World Cinema

Erscheint lt. Verlag 25.1.2018
Zusatzinfo 13 Line drawings, color; 166 Halftones, color
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Gewicht 920 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Journalistik
Wirtschaft
ISBN-10 0-415-78356-9 / 0415783569
ISBN-13 978-0-415-78356-9 / 9780415783569
Zustand Neuware
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