World Cinema: A Critical Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780415783569 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 470 str.

Shekhar Deshpande; Meta Mazaj

Opis

This textbook offers a critical introduction to the topic of world cinema that explores the transition that has taken place since the 1980s. Offering an introduction to the concept of world cinema itself, it explores some of the dominant theoretical perspectives in film studies and outlines a clear definition of world cinema as a polycentric, polymorphic and polyvalent formation. It proposes that - along with Hollywood - other cinematic centres such as Bollywood, Nollywood, Asian Cinema and European cinema, are equally as important. It also explores the impact caused by the changes to the way audiences watch films, film production and finance patterns, and the growth of film festivals.

O autorze

Shekhar Deshpande is Professor and Founding Chair of Media and Communication Department at Arcadia University, where he held Frank and Evelyn Steinbrucker Endowed Chair from 2005-2008. His writings have appeared in Senses of Cinema, Studies in European Cinema, Film International, Seminar and Widescreen. He is the author of the forthcoming Anthology Film and World Cinema.

Meta Mazaj is Senior Lecturer in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her articles have appeared in Cineaste, Studies in Eastern European Cinema, and Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination. She is the author of National and Cynicism in the Post 1990s Balkan Cinema (2008), and co-editor, with Timothy Corrigan and Patricia White, of Critical Visions in Film Theory: Classic and Contemporary Readings (2010).