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Print Price: $94.99

Format:
Paperback
250 pp.
25 black and white halftones, 189 mm x 246 mm

ISBN-13:
9780198742821

Publication date:
February 2000

Imprint: OUP UK


World Cinema

Critical Approaches

Edited by John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson
Advisory Board: Richard Dyer, E. Ann Kaplan and Paul Willemen

'The contributors supply skilful overviews of the major critical approaches' Sight and Sound May 1998

international coverage ranges from pre-1930s Europe to contemporary 'Bollywood' musicals

first class range of contributors from North America, Europe, Australia and Asia

many chapters specially commissioned

emphasis throughout on critical concepts, methods and debates

learning aids include chapter summaries, critiques of individual films and further reading

This text is an ideal course companion for undergraduate students studying film, media studies, cultural studies and literary theory. It is especially relevant to 2nd and 3rd year students taking options in World cinema, European cinema, and the impact of changing technologies.

Readership : Undergraduate students studying film, media studies, cultural studies and literary theory. Especially relevant to 2nd and Third year students taking options in world cinema, European cinema, and the impact of changing technologies.

Reviews

  • '..these volumes promise something more directed...the prime determinant behind World Cinema's coverage seems to be anything that isn't American (and in 200-odd pages this is a pretty tall order).' Sight and Sound August 2000 (Page 32 Film criticism)

REDEFINING CINEMA: INTERNATIONAL AND AVANT-GARDE ALTERNATIVES
1. Stephen Crofts: Concepts of National Cinema
2. Murray Smith: Modernism and the Avante-Gardes
3. Ashish Rajadhyaksha: Realism, Modernism, and Post-Colonial
REDEFINING CINEMA: OTHER GENRES
4. John Izod & Richard Kilborn: The Documentary Film
5. Michael O'Pray: The Animated Film
EUROPEAN CINEMA
6. Ginette Vincendeau: Issues in European Cinema
CASE-STUDIES: MOVEMENTS, MOMENTS, AND FILMMAKERS
7. Ian Christie: The Avant-Gardes and European Cinema before 1930
8. Simona Monticelli: Italian Post-War Cinema and Neo-Realism
9. Jill Forbes: The French Nouvelle Vague
10. Ulrike Sieglohr: New German Cinema
11. Daniel J. Goulding: East-Central European Cinema
12. Armand Mattelart: European Film Policy and the Response to Hollywood
13. Directors and Stars: (a) Jean Renoir, by Keith Reader; (b) Ingmar Bergman, by Chris Darke; (c) Chantal Akerman, by Cathy Fowler; (d) Pedro Almodóvar, by José Arroyo; (e) Luc Besson, by Susan Hayward; (f) Brigitte Bardot: A Star Case Study, by Ginette Vincendeau
ANGLOPHONE NATIONAL CINEMAS
CASE-STUDIES
14. Andrew Higson: British Cinema
15. Martin McLoone: Ireland and Cinema
16. Elizabeth Jacka: Australian Cinema
17. Will Straw: Canadian Cinema
WORLD CINEMA
18. Wimal Dissanayake: Issues in World Cinema
CASE-STUDIES: CINEMAS OF THE WORLD
19. Ashish Rajadhyaksha: Indian Cinema
Rosie Thomas: Reading: `Popular Hindi Cinema'
20. Berenice Reynaud: Chinese Cinema
21 (a). Stephen Teo: Hong Kong Cinema: Discovery and Pre-Discovery
21 (b). N. K. Leung: China, and 1997
22. Kuan-Hsing Chen: Taiwanese New Cinema
23. Freda Freiberg: Japanese Cinema
24. N. Frank Ukadike: African Cinema
Richard Porton: Reading: Hyenas
25. Julianne Burton-Carvajal: South American Cinema
FILM IN A CHANGING AGE
26. Laura Kipnis: Film and Changing Technologies
27. John Hill: Film and Television

There are no Instructor/Student Resources available at this time.

John Hill is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Media and Performance Studies at the University of Ulster at Coleraine

Pamela Church Gibson is a Senior Lecturer in Contextual and Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, a constituent college of the London Institute

ADVISORY BOARD

Richard Dyer is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Warwick

E. Ann Kaplan teaches in the Department of English at the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook, New York

Paul Willemen is Professor, Department of Media Studies, Napier University, Edinburgh

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Special Features

  • international coverage ranges from pre-1930s Europe to contemporary 'Bollywood' musicals
  • all subject chapters specially commissioned
  • top range of contributors from North America, Europe, Australia and Asia
  • contains critical readings of individual films