East Asian Cinemas

Leon Hunt, Leung Wing-Fai

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• Cinemas from East Asia are among the most exciting and influential in the world. They are attracting popular and critical attention on a global scale,... Lees meer

Latin American Women Filmmakers

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• Latin American women filmmakers have achieved unprecedented international prominence in recent years. Notably political in their approach, figures suc... Lees meer

Pablo Trapero and the Politics of Violence

Douglas Mulliken

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• This innovative study finds that, through his unique representation of violence, Argentine director Pablo Trapero has established himself as one of th... Lees meer

Contemporary New Zealand Cinema

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• Since New Zealand Cinema burst on to the global stage in the late 1970s, it has maintained a high-profile presence, capturing the imagination and enth... Lees meer

Realism in Greek Cinema

Vrasidas Karalis

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• The history of Greek cinema post-1945 is best understood through the stories of its most internationally celebrated and influential directors. Focusin... Lees meer

Brazil on Screen

Lúcia Nagib

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• Two periods of Brazilian film history are particularly notable for their artistic momentum: the Cinema Novo movement of the 1960s and early '70s, and ... Lees meer

Portugal's Global Cinema

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• Portuguese cinema has become increasingly prominent on the international film festival circuit, proving the country's size belies its cultural impact.... Lees meer

Performing Authorship

Cecilia Sayad

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• The figure of the auteur continues to haunt the study of film, resisting both the poststructuralist charges that pointed to its absence and the histor... Lees meer

Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema

James S Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• Since the beginnings of African cinema, the realm of beauty on screen has been treated with suspicion by directors and critics alike. James S. William... Lees meer

Lebanese Cinema

Lina Khatib

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• Modern Lebanese cinema can best be explored in the context of the Civil War, in part because almost all the Lebanese films made since its outset in 19... Lees meer

There's No Place Like Home

Stephanie Hemelryk Donald

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2018 The Wizard of Oz brought many now-iconic tropes into popular culture: the yellow brick road, ruby slippers and ... Lees meer

The Cinema of Cuba

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• Contemporary Cuba is opening up to the rest of the world. Its colonial past and the Communist revolution have left a lasting imprint on society, yet t... Lees meer

The Cinema of Jia Zhangke

Cecília Mello

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• Shorlisted for the BAFTSS 2020 Award for Best Monograph Starting out as an independent filmmaker, and despite his films being subjected to censorship ... Lees meer

Thai Cinema

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• One of the fastest growing and most internationally renowned cinemas in Southeast Asia is that of Thailand. In the first ever book devoted solely to t... Lees meer

Impure Cinema

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• Impure Cinema goes back to Bazin's original title precisely for its defence of impurity, applying it on the one hand to cinema's interbreeding with ot... Lees meer

On Cinema

Glauber Rocha

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• Glauber Rocha is known as the visionary Brazilian director of landmark films, Black God, White Devil, Entranced Earth and Antonio das Mortes. Hitherto... Lees meer

Performing Authorship

Cecilia Sayad

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• The figure of the auteur continues to haunt the study of film, resisting both the poststructuralist charges that pointed to its absence and the histor... Lees meer

Cinema in the Arab World

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• Cinema in the Arab world has been the subject of varied and rigorous studies, but most have focused on films as text, providing in-depth analyses of p... Lees meer

Latin American Women Filmmakers

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• A timely analysis of the rise of female-led transnational film in Latin America that takes account of the production histories, aesthetics and socio-p... Lees meer

Animation in the Middle East

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• The internationally acclaimed films Persepolis and Waltz with Bashir only hinted at the vibrant animation culture that exists within the Middle East a... Lees meer

Realism of the Senses in World Cinema

Tiago de Luca

• Hardcover | Engels | World Cinema
• Over the last decade, a realist tendency has made its mark on the world cinema map. What are its main aesthetic and political characteristics? How doe... Lees meer

New Argentine Cinema

Jens Andermann

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• Argentine filmmaking from the mid-1990s to the present has enjoyed worldwide success. New Argentine Cinema explores this cinema in order to discover t... Lees meer

The Spanish Fantastic

Shelagh Rowan-Legg

• Paperback | Engels | World Cinema
• In recent decades, the Spanish 'fantastic' has been at the forefront of genre filmmaking. Films such as The Day of the Beast, the Rec trilogy, The Orp... Lees meer

Basque Cinema

Rob Stone, Maria Pilar Rodriguez

• Hardcover | World Cinema
• This book is the definitive study of Basque cinema, revealing how film has always been a vital medium for articulating the Basque region's unique iden... Lees meer