Screening World Cinema The Screen Reader

Screening World Cinema brings together a selection of the best articles on the topic of world cinema published in the esteemed Screen journal.Available in one volume for the first time, this collection allows readers to cross-reference debates and essays that have ranged across many issues of Screen . Themes addressed include: the problem of defining 'world cinema' the relationship between 'first' and 'third' cinema and criticism issues of modernity and modernization questions of national and transnational cinema. With a selection of articles on key contemporary 'world' cinemas - New Iranian, Latin American and Chinese as well, this will be a must-read for all students of world cinema.Grant, Catherine is the author of 'Screening World Cinema The Screen Reader', published 2006 under ISBN 9780415384285 and ISBN 0415384281.