Michel Foucault introduced the idea that films could deliberately re-write the memory of history that people hold. Cinema has become a large apparatus, with its influence felt far beyond the texts themselves, into the fabric of everyday life. There is logic to this apparatus, which governs how reception and retention of films are shaped. Popular memory is embodied into everyday life, as part of the cinematic apparatus, according to the libidinal structures of desire and available avenues of expression. This book is an examination of how popular memory is shaped and retained under the...
Michel Foucault introduced the idea that films could deliberately re-write the memory of history that people hold. Cinema has become a large apparatus...
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...
This textbook offers a critical introduction to the topic of world cinema that explores the transition that has taken place since the 1980s. Offeri...
