Remapping World Cinema: Identity, Culture and Politics in Film

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Stephanie Dennison, Song Hwee Lim
Wallflower Press, 2006 - Performing Arts - 203 pages
With films such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), Oldboy (2003) and Good Bye Lenin! (2003), the state and popularity of world cinema has rarely been healthier. Remapping World Cinema explores many of the key critical and theoretical approaches and debates, including race, stardom, post-colonialism as well as national cinemas' relationship with Hollywood. Covering a broad scope, the book examines the cinemas of Africa, East Asia, India, Latin, Central and South America as well as the various territories of Europe.
 

Contents

REMAPPING WORLD CINEMA IN A POSTWORLD ORDER
9
PERFORMING STARDOM AND RACE
11
Towards a positive definition of world cinema
30
primitivism and paternalism in Pasolini Hopper
55
The dialectics of transnational identity and female desire in four films
73
Carnivalesque meets modernity in the films of Karl Valentin
89
stardom race
129
replacing
147
questioning gender and sexuality
161
the strange case
188
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