ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book aims to be a touchstone publication for a crucial moment, when the industry, ideas and functions of film are in tremendous flux, not just from the effects of digital technologies and new screen media, but from economic and political changes that prompt to question the very utility of the terms "world cinema" and "film". The book provides both a survey and an investigation into the condition and activity of contemporary filmmaking worldwide. It talks about Rosalind Galt and Karl Schoonover in their Global Art Cinema, that there are serious perils in thinking in terms of a simplistic geographical engagement of an international filmmaking community. The book includes analysis of those films and cinemas that slip between the gaps of conventional geographic categories, revealing themselves as impossible to situate or equally at home in multiple geographic contexts.
