Screening World Cinema

"Screening World Cinema" brings together a selection of key articles on world cinema published over the past two decades in the internationally renowned journal "Screen,"
This new collection allows readers to cross-reference the wide-ranging debates on world cinema that have been pursued and developed across many issues of the journal. Themes addressed include the problem of defining "World Cinema;" the relationship between "First" and "Third" cinemas and criticisms; issues of modernity and modernization; and melodrama as a national and transnational cinematic mode. "Screening World Cinema "also features chapters on important contemporary world cinemas--New Iranian, Latin American and Chinese cinemas among them--as they negotiate issues of globalization and cultural and political modernity, as well as a complete listing of articles and other items on world cinema publishing in "Screen" since 1976.""

Screening World Cinema brings together a selection of the best articles on the topic of world cinema published in the esteemed Screen journal. Available inone 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: theproblem 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.

IllustrationList. 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 in Maria 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 1975 Part 4: Contemporary World Cinema and Critical Theory 10. The Open Image: Poetic Realism and the New Iranian Cinema 11. Signs of Angst and Hope: History and Melodrama in Chinese Fifth-Generation Cinema 12. Affecting Legacies: Historical Memory and Contemporary Structures of Feeling in Madagascar and Amores Perros Appendix