Bøger i Traditions in World Cinema serien

Examines the influence of Gothic B-movies on the cinematic traditions of the United States, Britain, Scandinavia, Spain, Turkey, Japan, Hong Kong and India, highlighting their transgressive, transnational and provocative nature.

The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational film, this book traces how Danish shorts on topics including social welfare, industry, art and architecture were commissioned, funded, produced and reviewed from the inter-war period to the 1960s.

Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere introduces a new concept to Nordic film studies as well as to other small national, transnational and world cinema traditions.

Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere introduces a new concept to Nordic film studies as well as to other small national, transnational and world cinema traditions. Examining overlooked 'elsewheres', the book presents Nordic cinemas as international, cosmopolitan, diasporic and geographically dispersed, from their beginnings in the early silent period to their present 21st-century dynamics. Exploring both canonical works by directors like Ingmar Bergman and Lars von Trier, as well as a wide range of unknown or overlooked narratives of movement, synthesis and resistance, the book offers a new model of inquiry into a multi-varied Scandinavian cultural lineage, and into small nation and pan-regional world cinemas.Anna Westerstahl Stenport is Professor and Chair of the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Institute of Technology. Arne Lunde is Associate Professor in the Scandinavian Section and in Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA.

Nordic Genre Film' offers a transnational approach to studying contemporary genre production in Nordic cinema.

Through a textual analysis of six filmmakers (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro, Fernando Meirelles, Walter Salles and Juan Jose Campanella), this book brings a new perspective to the films of Latin America's transnational auteurs.

Examines how changes to the French film industry have resulted in popular films which in turn are changing perspectives on French cinema.

This is the first book to investigate the coming-of-age genre as a significant phenomenon in New Zealand's national cinema, tracing its development and elucidating its role in cultural change.

Offers a sustained analysis of a cluster of French films made during, and in response to, the Algerian War of Independence

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.

'New Realism: Contemporary British Cinema represents an important intervention and innovation within ongoing debates on British film realism. Through detailed contextualised analysis of films by five distinctive key contemporary directors - Andrea Arnold, Clio Barnard, Joanna Hogg, Duane Hopkins and Shane Meadows - Dave Forrest makes a highly persuasive and cogent case for their work constituting a new model of realist filmmaking in 21st century British cinema which is no less politically charged for its poetic and haptic qualities. This insightful book is essential reading for anyone interested in film realism or contemporary British cinema.'Melanie Williams University of East AngliaThe tradition of British realism has changed dramatically over the last 20 years, where films by directors such as Duane Hopkins, Joanna Hogg, Andrea Arnold, Shane Meadows and Clio Barnard have suggested a markedly poetic turn. This new realism rejects the instrumentalism and didacticism of filmmakers like Ken Loach in favour of lyrical and often ambiguous encounters with place, where the physical processes of lived experience interacts with the rhythms of everyday life. Taking these 5 filmmakers as case studies, this book seeks to explore in depth this new tradition of British cinema - and in the process, it reignites debates over realism that have concerned scholars for decades.David Forrest is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sheffield.Cover image: Better Things, Duane Hopkins, 2008 © Soda Pictures/PhotofestCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-1303-9Barcode

Examines the influence of Gothic B-movies on the cinematic traditions of the United States, Britain, Scandinavia, Spain, Turkey, Japan, Hong Kong and India, highlighting their transgressive, transnational and provocative nature.

Japanese Horror Cinema is a much-needed critical introduction to some of the most important Japanese horror films produced over the last fifty years and provides an insightful examination of the tradition's most significant trends and themes.

Examines the influence of film noir on visual narrative and technique in global cinematic traditions. This book suggests that the film noir style continues to appeal on such a global scale because no other cinematic form has merged style and genre to effect a vision of the disturbing consequences of modernity.

Stephen Zepke shows how the idea of sublime art waxes and wanes in the work of Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Ranciere and the recent Speculative Realism movement.

Offers a comprehensive study of films made in and about one of the world's most breathtaking landscapes - the Arctic. This book addresses vast diversity of Northern circumpolar cinemas from a transnational perspective, Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic presents the region as one of great and previously overlooked cinematic diversity.

Focused on a body of films bound together through a cinematic aesthetic of slowness, this book is a pioneering effort to situate, theorise and map out slow cinema within contemporary global film production and across world cinema history.

An introduction to a wide range of traditions in world cinema.

Offers a transnational comparative approach to contemporary popular Nordic genre film. This book analyses the production, distribution and the reception of contemporary genre films. It provides industrial perspectives and in depth discussion of specific films.

The musical is one of cinema's few genuinely international genres but it has never been studied as a global sensation. This book fills this critical gap in film studies as it brings together musicals from 15 nations in order to highlight running themes.

A unique study of the film musical, a global cinema tradition.

Explores the development of film noir as a cultural and artistic phenomenon. This book traces the development of what we know as film noir from the proto-noir elements of Feuillade's silent French crime series and German Expressionism to the genre's mid-20th century popularization and influence on contemporary global media.

Japanese Horror Cinema is a much-needed critical introduction to some of the most important Japanese horror films produced over the last fifty years and provides an insightful examination of the tradition's most significant trends and themes.

An introduction to a wide range of traditions in world cinema.

This is the first book to examine a new breed of film that is indebted to the punk spirit of experimentation, do-it-yourself ethos, and an uneasy, often defiant relationship with the mainstream.

With chapters on polar explorer films, silent cinema, documentaries, ethnographic and indigenous film, gender and ecology, as well as Hollywood and the USSR's uses and abuses of the Arctic, this book provides a groundbreaking account of Arctic cinemas from 1898 to the present and radically alters stereotypical views of the Arctic region.