Traditions in World Cinema

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Linda Badley
Edinburgh University Press, Dec 8, 2005 - Performing Arts - 288 pages
The core volume in the Traditions in World Cinema series, this book brings together a colourful and wide-ranging collection of world cinematic traditions - national, regional and global - all of which are in need of introduction, investigation and, in some cases, critical reassessment. Topics include: German expressionism, Italian neorealism, French New Wave, British new wave, Czech new wave, Danish Dogma, post-Communist cinema, Brazilian post-Cinema Novo, new Argentine cinema, pre-revolutionary African traditions, Israeli persecution films, new Iranian cinema, Hindi film songs, Chinese wenyi pian melodrama, Japanese horror, new Hollywood cinema and global found footage cinema.Features*Includes a preface by Toby Miller.*Each chapter covers a key world cinema tradition and is written by an expert in the field: Roy Armes, Nitzan Ben-Shaul, Peter Bondanella, Corey Creekmur, Adrian Danks, Peter Hames, Randal Johnson, Robert Kolker, Myrto Konstantarakos, Jay McRoy, Negar Mottahedeh, Richard Neupert, Christina Stojanova, J.P. Telotte, Stephen Teo.*Traditions are examined from a wide range of views and include historical, social, cultural and industrial perspectives.
 

Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
PART I EUROPEAN TRADITIONS
13
1 GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
15
2 ITALIAN NEOREALISM
29
3 THE FRENCH NEW WAVE
41
4 THE BRITISH NEW WAVE
52
PART II CENTRAL EASTERN AND NORTHERN EUROPEAN TRADITIONS
65
5 THE CZECHOSLOVAK NEW WAVE
67
PART IV AFRICAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN TRADITIONS
141
10 EARLY CINEMATIC TRADITIONS IN AFRICA
143
11 ISRAELI PERSECUTION FILMS
160
12 NEW IRANIAN CINEMA
176
PART V ASIAN TRADITIONS
191
13 POPULAR HINDI CINEMA AND THE FILM SONG
193
14 CHINESE MELODRAMA
203
15 JAPANESE HORROR CINEMA
214

6 DANISH DOGMA
80
7 POSTCOMMUNIST CINEMA
95
PART III SOUTH AMERICAN TRADITIONS
115
8 POSTCINEMA NOVO BRAZILIAN CINEMA
117
9 NEW ARGENTINE CINEMA
130
PART VI AMERICAN AND TRANSNATIONAL TRADITIONS
229
16 THE NEW AMERICAN CINEMA
231
17 THE GLOBAL ART OF FOUND FOOTAGE CINEMA
241
INDEX
254
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R. Barton Palmer is the Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University, where he directs the film studies program. He is the author, editor, or general editor of many books including Hollywood's Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir (1994), After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality (2006), and A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film (2011). Steven Jay Schneider is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Media Culture at the City University of New York.

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