... French language Marseille Naficy Hamid Pouliot Jean François metaphors Rosello Mireille Carion Christian D?urovic?ova´ Nataša Joyeux Noël Merry Christmas Carion Shohat Ella world cinema ‘activist’ films Damrosch David ethics Galt Rosalind and Schoonover Karl Hjort Mette Migraine George...

... London imaginaries become global in their scope. The chapter ultimately develops parallel interrogations of what constitutes the “global” in the global cinematic city and “the world” in critical accounts of world cinema. Algeria Bouchareb Rachid Europe London London River Bouchareb Paris Playtime...

... on world cinema (Nagib, Andrew et. al.), the author outlines a ‘polycentric approach to world cinema’s planet of slums’. Davis M Dickens C Lagos London Mumbai New York Paris Rio de Janeiro social housing Foucault M globalisation slum tourism slumming aestheticisation of poverty Boyle D...

...: the ‘planet of slums’, the ‘cinematic city’, ‘representation’ and the notion of ‘world cinema’. The author suggests that it is important to take critical voices into consideration that explain the ‘mass production of slums’ (Davis) as an effect of global capitalism (Castells et. al.). However, in accordance...

...In this introductory chapter readers are made familiar with the expanding research field of essayistic filmmaking in world cinema-contexts around the globe. Brenda Hollweg and Igor Krstíc argue that the essay film is a privileged political and ethical tool by means of which filmmakers around...

...João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata are one of the most cosmopolitan and popular duos in contemporary world cinema. Their works tell us particular stories of love and the many dimensions of human desire and these stories have found a highly favourable reception among international...

...Exotic Cinema: Encounters with Cultural Difference in Contemporary Transnational Film is the first systematic analysis of exoticism in contemporary transnational and world cinema. Daniela Berghahn conceptualises exoticism in three ways: as a discursive construction of cultural...

... for understanding the richly diverse ways in which artists and filmmakers draw on and reconfigure the other arts in their creative practice. From pre-cinema to the digital era, from avant-garde to world cinema, and from the projection room to the gallery space, the contributors critically explore what happens when...

... specialty cinema Specialty film World cinema Institutionalisation Specialty labels Independent distributors Throughout the decades of the twentieth century the discourse of American independent cinema has expanded and contracted to include a wide variety of production and distribution practices...

...The Introduction outlines the scope, aims and structure of this book. It proposes that Exotic Cinema contributes to the agenda of decolonising film studies in three ways: first, because its focus on world cinema de-Westernises the canon; second, because many of the films discussed...

...World Cinema and the Essay Film examines the ways in which essay film practices are deployed by transnational filmmakers in specific local and national contexts, in an interconnected world. The book identifies the essay film as a political and ethical tool to reflect upon...

... chapter. post war era World War II femme fatale social class borders national expressionism genre film Poetic Realism French fragmentation genre hybridity film location shooting neorealism voice over narration World War II Film noir Liminality World Cinema Classical-era Film Genre...

...To explore the conditions that generate some of the striking aesthetic choices in contemporary Chilean cinema and their possible meanings, this chapter situates these films in the context of “World Cinema” discourses on cinematic realism. The transnational connections of the films’ realist...

... of god metaphor symbolic Trinh T Minh Ha Epstein Jean faciality photogénie Balázs Béla unconscious amnesia Islam memory Trauma melancholia Transnational cinema Feminism Third Cinema New Arab Cinema Solidarity Film History Classics of World Cinema Arab women Women’s cinema Film...

...By focusing on subtitles, this chapter maps out and delineates critical positions as they emerge within film theory and ‘world cinema’ in order to investigate their limitations. It proposes an understanding of ‘foreign spectators’ as characters encountered in the travels of films but explores...

..., and The Hunters. This trilogy is one of the most radical ‘political’ interventions attempted within the established visual poetics of World Cinema. Both historically and culturally, these films were produced at the beginning and the end of a period of extreme experimentation with visual representation...