World on film : an introduction

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Nochimson, Martha (Author)
Format Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, c2010
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ISBN9781405139793
Physical Descriptionxi, 447 s. : il. ; 26 cm

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Table of Contents:
  • Nations make movies. Introduction: other languages, other stories
  • France: French revolutions at the movies
  • Russia: utopia and dystopia
  • Germany: from darkness toward light
  • Italy: the myth of history, neorealism, and beyond
  • Japan: screening feudalism and modernism
  • India: cinema of combination and contradiction
  • Moviemaking in the global village. Introduction: they do it their way
  • Spain: Luis Buñuel, playing with ideas
  • Sweden: Ingmar Bergman, being and nothingness
  • Hong Kong: Wong Kar-Wai, now you see it--
  • Senegal: Ousmane Sembène, postcolonial pioneer
  • Mainland China: Jia Zhangke, freedom and the sixth generation