Screening world cinema
Subtitle: the screen reader
By: edited by Catherine Grant and Annette Kuhn.
Contributors: Grant, Catherine, 1964-; Kuhn, Annette.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Abingdon, [England]; N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Screening world cinema / Annette Kuhn and Catherine Grant; title: Marginal cinemas and mainstream critical theory / Julianne Burton-Carvajal; title: Colonialism and law and order criticism / Teshome H. Gabriel; title: A screen of one's own : early cinema in Quebec and the public sphere, 1906-1928 / Scott MacKenzie; title: If looks could kill : image wars in Maria Candelaria / Andrea Noble; title: Pictures of the past in the present : modernity, femininity and stardom in the postwar films of Ozu Yasujiro / Alastair Phillips; title: The melodramatic mode and the commercial Hindi cinema / Ravi Vasudevan; title: Avenging women in Indian cinema / Lalitha Gopalan; title: Narratives of resistance : national identity and ambivalence in the Turkish melodrama between 1965 and 1975 / Nezih Erdogan; title: The open image : poetic realism and the new Iranian cinema / Shohini Chaudhuri and Howard Finn; title: Signs of angst and hope : history and melodrama in Chinese fifth-generation cinema / Ning Ma; title: Affecting legacies : historical memory and contemporary structures of feeling in Madagascar and Amores perros / Laura Podalsky.