World cinema
Subtitle: critical approaches
By: edited by John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson ; consultant editors: Richard Dyer, E. Ann Kaplan, Paul Willemen.
Contributors: Hill, John; Gibson, Pamela Church.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of contributors; title: List of illustrations; title: General introduction / John Hill; title: Redefining cinema: international and avant-garde alternatives. 1. Concepts of national cinema / Stephen Crofts ; 2. Modernism and the avant-gardes / Murray Smith ; 3. Realism, modernism, and post-colonial theory / Ashish Rajadhyaksha; title: Redefining cinema: other genres. 4. The documentary / John Izod and Richard Kilborn ; 5. The animated film / Michael O'Pray; title: European cinema. 6. Issues in European cinema / Ginette Vincendeau; title: Case studies: movements, moments, and filmmakers. 7. The avant gardes and European cinema before 1930 / Ian Christie ; 8. Italian post-war cinema and neo-realism / Simona Monticelli ; 9. The French nouvelle vague / Jill Forbes ; 10. New German cinema / Ulrike Sieglohr ; 11. East Central European cinema / Daniel J. Goulding ; 12. European film policy and the response to Hollywood / Armand Mattelart ; 13. Directors and stars: (a) Jean Renoir / Keith Reader ; (b) Ingmar Bergman / Chris Darke ; (c) Chantal Akerman / Cathy Fowler ; (d) Pedro Almodóvar / José Arroyo ; (e) Luc Besson / Susan Hayward ; (f) Brigitte Bardot / Ginette Vincendeau.; title: Anglophone national cinemas: Case studies. 14. British cinema / Andrew Higson ; 15. Ireland and cinema / Martin McLoone ; 16. Australian cinema / Elizabeth Jacka ; 17. Canadian cinema / Will Straw; title: World cinema. 18. Issues in world cinema / Wimal Dissanayake; title: Case-studies: cinemas of the world. 19. Indian cinema / Ashish Rajadhyaksha ; 20. Chinese cinema / Bérénice Reynaud ; 21. Hong Kong cinema (a) Discovery and pre-discovery / Stephen Teo ; (b) China and 1997 / N.K. Leung ; 22. Taiwanese new cinema / Kuan-Hsing Chen ; 23. Japanese cinema / Freda Freiberg ; 24. African cinema / N. Frank Ukadike ; 25. South American cinema / Julianne Burton-Carvajal; title: Redefining cinema: film in a changing age. 26. Film and changing technologies / Laura Kipnis ; 27. Film and television / John Hill; title: List of picture sources and readings; title: Index of selected names and film titles.