Storytelling in World Cinemas: Contexts - Hardcover

Khatib, Lina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231163363 ISBN 13: 9780231163361

Publisher: Wallflower Press, 2013

Synopsis

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 on films from all five continents, the book approaches storytelling from a cultural/historical multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on the influence of cultural politics, postcolonialism, women's social and cultural positions, and religious contexts on film stories. Like its sister volume, Storytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 1: Forms, this book is an innovative addition to the academic study of world cinemas.

About this title

About the Author:

Lina Khatib leads the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. She is the author of Filming the Modern Middle East: Politics in the Cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab World (2006) and Lebanese Cinema: Imagining the Civil War and Beyond (2008).

Review:

Superb essays that should enlighten both the common reader and the film critic. (The European Legacy)

About this edition

• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0231163363
• ISBN 13: 9780231163361
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224