Remapping World Cinema: Identity, Culture and Politics in FilmStephanie Dennison, Song Hwee Lim 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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