Storytelling in world cinemas. Vol. 2 : contexts

Storytelling in world cinemas. Vol. 2 : contexts / edited by Lina Khatib.

Storytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 2: Contexts addresses the questions of what and why particular stories are told in films around the world, both in terms of the forms of storytelling used, and of the political, religious, historical, and social contexts informing cinematic storytelling. Drawing o...

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Other Authors: Khatib, Lina (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Wallflower Press Book, 2013.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Plots, themes, etc.
Motion pictures > History.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
Motion pictures
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction to Volume Two, by Lina Khatib; Storytelling and Cultural Politics; Stories as Social Critique: The Vision of China in the Films of Jia Zhangke, by Konrad Ng; Taonga (cultural treasures): Reflections on Maori Storytelling in the Cinema of Aotearoa/New Zealand, by Hester Joyce; The Minjung Cultural Movement and Korean Cinema of the 1980s: The Influence of Minjung Theatre and Art in Lee Jang-ho's Films, by Nam Lee; On How to Tell a Revolution: Alsino y el cóndor, by Robert Dash and Patricia Varas.
  • Storytelling and PostcolonialismTelling Stories About Unknown People in Faraway Countries: U.S. Travelogues About Mexico in the 1930s and 1940s, by Isabel Arredondo; Memory and Tradition as a Postcolonial Response in the Films of Kyrgyzstan's Aktan Abdykalykov, by Willow Mullins; 'Postcolonial Beaux' Stratagem: Singing and Dancing Back with Carmen in African Films, by Yifen T. Beus; Telling Women's Stories; Heard/Symbolic Voices: The Nouba of the Women of Mont Chenoua and Women's Film in the Maghreb, by Zahia Smail Salhi.
  • Women's Stories and Public Space in Iranian New Wave Film, by Anna DempseyCinematic Images of Women at a Time of National(ist) Crisis: The Case of Three Yugoslav Films, by Dijana Jelača; History as Science Fiction: Women of Action in Hong Kong Cinema, by Saša Vojković; Storytelling and Religio-Cultural Encounters; Clouds of Unknowing: Buddhism and Bhutanese Cinema, by Shohini Chaudhuri and Sue Clayton; Claiming Space, Time and History in The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, by Darrell Varga; Qissa and Popular Hindi Cinema, by Anjali Gera Roy; Index.

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