
Realism of the Senses in World Cinema: The Experience of Physical Reality By Tiago de Luca Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics Edited by Deborah Martin and Deborah Shaw Queer Masculinities in Latin American Cinema: Male Bodies and Narrative Representations By Gustavo Subero Realism in Greek Cinema: From the PostWar Period to the Present By Vrasidas Karalis Published and forthcoming in the World Cinema series: Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance By Michelle Langford Animation in the Middle East: Practice and Aesthetics from Baghdad to Casablanca By Stefanie Van de Peer Basque Cinema: A Cultural and Political History By Rob Stone and Maria Pilar Rodriguez Brazil on Screen: Cinema Novo, New Cinema, Utopia By Lúcia Nagib The Cinema of Jia Zhangke: Realism and Memory in Chinese Film By Cecília Mello The Cinema of Sri Lanka: South Asian Film in Texts and Contexts By Ian Conrich and Vilasnee Tampoe-HautinĬontemporary New Zealand Cinema Edited by Ian Conrich and Stuart Murray Contemporary Portuguese Cinema: Globalising the Nation Edited by Mariana Liz Cosmopolitan Cinema: Cross-cultural Encounters in East Asian Film By Felicia Chan Documentary Cinema: Contemporary Non-Fiction Film and Video Worldwide By Keith Beattie Documentary Cinema of Chile: Confronting History, Memory, Trauma By Antonio Traverso East Asian Cinemas: Exploring Transnational Connections on Film Edited by Leon Hunt and Leung Wing-Fai East Asian Film Noir: Transnational Encounters and Intercultural Dialogue Edited by Chi-Yun Shin and Mark Gallagherįilm Genres and African Cinema: Postcolonial Encounters By Rachael Langford Impure Cinema: Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film Edited by Lúcia Nagib and Anne Jerslev

Drawing upon an international authorship, they will challenge outdated conceptions of world cinema, and provide new ways of understanding a field at the centre of film studies in an era of transnational networks.
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The books in the series will represent innovative scholarship, in tune with the multicultural character of contemporary audiences. Series Editors: Lúcia Nagib, Professor of Film at the University of Reading Julian Ross, Research Fellow at the University of Westminster Advisory Board: Laura Mulvey (UK), Robert Stam (USA), Ismail Xavier (Brazil), Dudley Andrew (USA) The World Cinema Series aims to reveal and celebrate the richness and complexity of film art across the globe, exploring a wide variety of cinemas set within their own cultures and as they interconnect in a global context.

Chapter 1 The trouble with beauty: Reimagining African film aestheticsĬhapter 2 On the front line: In/visible violence, formations of style and aesthetic resistanceĬhapter 3 Screening Dakar: Locating beauty in the afropolisĬhapter 4 Voice, language, mystery: From ideological struggle to aesthetic shudderĬhapter 5 Queering the Baobab: Male intimacy, the erotics of abstraction and the right to beautyĬhapter 6 On the border, becoming world: Migrant beauty, migratory narratives and the transmigration of cinematic formĮTHICS AND AESTHETICS IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN CINEMA
