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The Routledge Companion to World Cinema
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ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to World Cinema explores and examines a global range of films and filmmakers, their movements and audiences, comparing their cultural, technological and political dynamics, identifying the impulses that constantly reshape the form and function of the cinemas of the world. Each of the forty chapters provides a survey of a topic, explaining why the issue or area is important, and critically discussing the leading views in the area. Designed as a dynamic forum for forty world-leading scholars, this companion contains significant expertise and insight and is dedicated to challenging complacent views of hegemonic film cultures and replacing outmoded ideas about production, distribution and reception. It offers both a survey and an investigation into the condition and activity of contemporary filmmaking worldwide, often challenging long-standing categories and weighted—often politically motivated—value judgements, thereby grounding and aligning the reader in an activity of remapping which is designed to prompt rethinking.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |20 pages
Introduction
part I|243 pages
Longitude
chapter 3|15 pages
Global intimacy and cultural intoxication
chapter 8|11 pages
Connected in “another way”
chapter 10|10 pages
Popular cinema/quality television
chapter 13|14 pages
Developments in Eastern European cinemas since 1989
chapter 14|11 pages
Cinema at the edges of the European Union
chapter 15|11 pages
The non/industries of film and the Palestinian emergent film economy
chapter 16|10 pages
Locations and narrative reorientations in Arab cinemas/World Cinema
chapter 17|12 pages
The forking paths of Indian cinema
chapter 18|12 pages
American indie film and international art cinema
chapter 20|12 pages
Conventions, preventions and interventions
part II|232 pages
Latitude