Questa serie approfondisce le ricche e diverse tradizioni cinematografiche che abbracciano il globo. Ogni volume si concentra su distinti movimenti cinematografici e cinematografie nazionali o regionali, esplorando le loro caratteristiche uniche. I lettori scopriranno opere seminali e innovazioni stilistiche che plasmano il patrimonio cinematografico mondiale. Offre un'esplorazione avvincente per ogni cinefilo.
This collection of essays interrogates and expands the frameworks that have informed slow cinema debates. Repositioning the term in a broader theoretical space, the book combines an array of fine-g rained studies that will provide insight into the notion of slowness in the cinema, while mapping out past and contemporary slow films across the globe.
This series presents diverse and fascinating movements in world cinema. Each volume concentrates on a set of films from a different national, regional or, in some cases, cross-cultural cinema which constitute a particular tradition.
This is the fully-researched account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts genre in the Chinese cinema known as wuxia. The book unveils rich layers of the wuxia tradition as it developed in early Shanghai cinema in the late 1920s, and from the 1950s onwards, in the Hong Kong and Taiwan film industries.
This book examines links between theme, genre and visual style, and looks at the ways in which a range of traditions has extended across different historical periods and political regimes. It provides a unique study of areas of Central European film history.
Focusing on a corpus of films from France, Belgium and Switzerland, French- language Road Cinema contends that nowhere is the impulse to remap the spaces and identities of `New Europe more evident than in French-language cinema.
Offering a variety of case studies in which films have been remade across national borders, Transnational Film Remakes provides an analysis of cinematic remaking that moves beyond Hollywood to address the truly global nature of this phenomenon.
Nordic Genre Film' offers a transnational approach to studying contemporary genre production in Nordic cinema.