Screening World Cinema [Paperback]

Screening World Cinema brings together a selection of the best articles on the topic of world cinema published in the esteemed Screenjournal.

Available in one volume for the first time, this collection allows readers to cross-reference debates and essays that have ranged across many issues of Screen. Themes addressed include:

• the problem of defining world cinema
• the relationship between first and third cinema and criticism
• issues of modernity and modernization
• questions of national and transnational cinema.

With a selection of articles on key contemporary world cinemas  New Iranian, Latin American and Chinese as well, this will be a must-read for all students of world cinema.

Illustration List.  Acknowledgments.  Notes on Contributors.  1. Screening World Cinema  Part 1: Views from Here and There  2. Marginal Cinemas and Mainstream Critical Theory: The Relationships between Third World Cinema and First World Criticism  3. Colonialism and Law and Order Criticism  Part 2: Modernity and Modernization  4. A Screen of One's Own: Early Cinema in Quebec and the Public Sphere 1906-28  5. If Looks Could Kill: Image Wars inMaria Candelaria  6. Pictures of the Past in the Present: Modernity, Femininity and Stardom in the Postwar Films of Ozu Yasujiro  Part 3: Melodrama as a National and Transnational Mode  7. The Melodramatic Mode and the Commercial Hindi Cinema: Notes on Film History, Narrative and Performance in the 1950s  8. Avenging Women in Indian Cinema  9. Narratives of Resistance: National Identity and Ambivalence in the Turkish Melodrama between 1965 and 19l3œ