Screening world cinema the screen reader - Grant, Catherine 1964-.; Kuhn, Annette (London Routledge, 2006)
Screening world cinema / Annette Kuhn and Catherine Grant -- Marginal cinemas and mainstream critical theory / Julianne Burton-Carvajal -- Colonialism and law and order criticism / Teshome H. Gabriel -- A screen of one's own : early cinema in Quebec and the public sphere, 1906-1928 / Scott MacKenzie -- If looks could kill : image wars in Maria Candelaria / Andrea Noble -- Pictures of the past in the present : modernity, femininity and stardom in the postwar films of Ozu Yasujiro / Alastair Phillips -- The melodramatic mode and the commercial Hindi cinema / Ravi Vasudevan -- Avenging women in Indian cinema / Lalitha Gopalan -- Narratives of resistance : national identity and ambivalence in the Turkish melodrama between 1965 and 1975 / Nezih Erdogan -- The open image : poetic realism and the new Iranian cinema / Shohini Chaudhuri and Howard Finn -- Signs of angst and hope : history and melodrama in Chinese fifth-generation cinema / Ning Ma -- Affecting legacies : historical memory and contemporary structures of feeling in Madagascar and Amores perros / Laura Podalsky.
"Themes addressed in this collection of essays include modernity and modernization, the problem of defining world cinema, globalization, and the various modes of melodrama in films from Turkey, Iran, China, and India." H. W. Wilson, Inc.
Keywords: Motion pictures