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Abbas Kiarostami / Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum Urbana, Ill ; Chicago: University of Illinois, 2003.
Call No: 81KIA SAEAuthor: Saeed-Vaffa, Mehrnaz ; Rosenbaum, Jonathan Source: USPlace: Urbana, Ill ; ChicagoPublisher: University of IllinoisPubDate: 2003PhysDes: ix, 151 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSeries: Contemporary film directorsSubject: IRAN ; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS ; KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS ; Rosenbaum, Jonathan ; SAEED-VAFFA, MEHRNAZ ; ABC AFRICA (IR, Abbas Kiarostami, 2001) ; NAMA-YE NAZDIK (IR, Abbas Kiarostami, 1990) ; MASHGH-E SHAB (IR, Abbas Kiarostami, 1989) ; ZENDEGI VA DIGAR HICH (IR, Abbas Kiarostami, 1992) ; TA' M E GUILASS (IR, Abbas Kiarostami, 1997) ; ZIRE DARAKHTAN ZEYTON (IR, Abbas Kiarostami, 1994) ; KHANCH-YE DOUST KOJAST (IR, Abbas Kiarostami, 1989) ; VENT NOUS EMPORTERA, LE (FR/IR, Abbas Kiarostami, 1999) Summary: Connected by discussions between the authors on topics including the ethical dimensions of Kiarostami's style and the political implications of his films, this series of linked essays includes American and Iranian readings of his features and shorts. [taken from back cover]ISBN: 0252071115
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The Asian cinema experience : styles, spaces, theory Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York: Routledge, 2013.
Call No: 756(5) TEOAuthor: Teo, Stephen Source: UKPlace: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2013PhysDes: xv, 269 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmSeries: Media, culture and social change in Asia ; 30Subject: INDIAN CINEMA ; CHINA ; JAPAN ; KOREA ; HONG KONG ; TAIWAN ; THAILAND ; SINGAPORE ; MALAYSIA ; IRAN ; BOLLYWOOD ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA ; THEORY ; ASIAN COUNTRIES ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. ASIAN COUNTRIES ; WORLD CINEMA ; BLOCKBUSTERS ; ANIMATION ; HORROR FILM ; GHOST FILMS ; EROTIC FILMS ; EROTIC FILMS. ASIA Summary: "This book explores the range and dynamism of contemporary Asian cinemas, covering East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia), South Asia (Bollywood), and West Asia (Iran), in order to discover what is common about them and to engender a theory or concept of "Asian Cinema". It goes beyond existing work which provides a field survey of Asian cinema, probing more deeply into the field of Asian Cinema, arguing that Asian Cinema constitutes a separate pedagogical subject, and putting forward an alternative cinematic paradigm. The book covers "styles", including the works of classical Asian Cinema masters, and specific genres such as horror films, and Bollywood and Anime, two very popular modes of Asian Cinema; "spaces", including artistic use of space and perspective in Chinese cinema, geographic and personal space in Iranian cinema, the private "erotic space" of films from South Korea and Thailand, and the persistence of the family unit in the urban spaces of Asian big cities in many Asian films; and "concepts" such as Pan-Asianism, Orientalism, Nationalism and Third Cinema. The rise of Asian nations on the world stage has been coupled with a growing interest, both inside and outside Asia, of Asian culture, of which film is increasingly an indispensable component--this book provides a rich, insightful overview of what exactly constitutes Asian Cinema." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographic references and index; Includes filmographyISBN: 9781138815780Contents: pt. I Styles -- 1.Kurosawa and classical style in Asian Cinema -- 2.Satyajit Ray and the Indian sensitivity of affect -- 3.The historical blockbuster style -- 4.The abstract transnational style of anime -- 5.Asian horror and the ghost-story style -- 6.The `Bollywood' style -- pt. II Spaces -- 7.Space in Asian melodrama -- 8.Iranian cinema and inward space -- 9.Domestic space and the family in South Korean cinema -- 10.Erotic space in Asian films -- pt. III Theory -- 11.The world and Asian Cinema -- 12.Asian Cinema and other cinemas.
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Close up : Iranian cinema: past, present and future / Hamid Dabashi New York: Verso, 2001.
Call No: 71(55) DABAuthor: Dabashi, Hamid Source: UK / USPlace: London; New YorkPublisher: VersoPubDate: 2001PhysDes: xii, 302 p. : ill. ; 20 cmSubject: IRAN ; NATIONAL CULTURE IN FILMS. IRAN ; KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS ; MAKHMALBAF, MOHSEN ; FARMANARA, BAHMAN ; BEIZI, BAHRAM ; MIX (IR, Dariush Mehrjui, 2000) ; SHAZDEH EHTEJAB (IR, Bahman Farmanara, 1974) ; VENT NOUS EMPORTERA, LE (FR/IR, Abbas Kiarostami, 1999) ; BOOYE KAFOOR, ATRE YAS (IR, Bahman Farmonara, 2000) ; TAKHTE SIAH (IR/IT, Samira Makhmalbaf, 2000) ; SIB (IR/FR, Samira Makhmalbaf, 1998) ; ZAMANI BARAYE MASTI ASBHA (IR, Bahman Ghobadi, 2000) ; DJOMEH (IR, Hasan Yektapanah, 2000) ; ETERAZ (IR, Massoud Kimiayi, 2000) Notes: Includes filmographies (p. [283]-290).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-297)ISBN: 1859843328
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Covering Islam : how the media and the experts determine how we see the rest of the world / Edward W. Said London: Random House, 1997.
Call No: 408.3(5-011) SAIAuthor: Edward W. Said Edition: revised editionPlace: LondonPublisher: Random HousePubDate: 1997PhysDes: lxx, 202 pages ; 20 cmSubject: CULTURAL IMPERIALISM ; IRAN ; MEDIA ; MEDIA STUDIES ; POLITICS AND TV ; PROPAGANDA ON TV ; TYPE CHARACTERS ON TV Summary: "From the Iranian hostage crisis through the Gulf War and the World Trade Center bombing, the West has been huanted by a spectre called 'Islam'. As portrayed by the news media - and by a chorus of government, academic and corporate experts - 'Islam' is synonymous with terrorism and religious hysteria. At the same time, Islamic countries use 'Islam' to justify unrepresentative and often repressive regimes. In this landmark work, for which he has written a new introduction, one of our foremost public thinkers examines the origins and repercussions of the media's monolithic images of Islam. Combining political commentary with literary criticism, Edward Said reveals the hidden assumptions and distortions of fact that underlie even the most 'objective' coverage of the Islamic world." - BOOK BLURBNotes: contains indexISBN: 009959501xDonation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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COVERUP: BEHIND THE IRAN CONTRA AFFAIR : (US, Barbara Trent, 1988)
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Displaced allegories : post-revolutionary Iranian cinema / Negar Mottahedeh Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
Call No: 71(55) MOTAuthor: Mottahedeh, Negar Source: USPlace: DurhamPublisher: Duke University PressPubDate: 2008PhysDes: xiii, 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: IRAN ; WOMEN IN FILMS. IRAN ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA. IRAN ; BAYA'I, BAHRAM ; KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2010Contents: Introduction: Producing a National Cinema, a Woman's Cinema -- 1 Nationalizing Sense Perception: Bahram Bayza'i -- 2 Cleansing Vision: Abbas Kiarostami, Le Secret Magnifique -- 3 Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema and 1970s Feminist Film Theory
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Film & politics in the Third World / edited by John D.H. Downing Brooklyn, NY, USA: Autonomedia, 1987.
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From Iran to Hollywood and some places in-between : reframing post-revolutionary Iranian cinema / Christopher Gow London: I.B. Tauris, 2011.
Call No: 71(55) GOWAuthor: Gow, Christopher Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: I.B. TaurisPubDate: 2011PhysDes: xi, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: International library of Iranian studies ; 39Subject: IRAN ; SHAHID-SALES, SOHRAB ; NADERI, AMIR ; KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS Summary: "Iranian cinema has been one of the most fascinating success stories in the world cinema over the last twenty years, with critics in Europe and North America hailing it as an alternative to the homogenising global influence of mainstream cinema. The author examines how the success of Iranian cinema and the films of its foremost proponent, Abbas Kiarostami, can be accounted for by the extent to which they fit into seminal notions of 'art cinema'. There is exploration of of post-revolutionary Iranian cinema and investigation of the links between the New Iranian Cinema and emigre Iranian filmmaking.' - TAKEN FROM BACK COVERISBN: 9781848855267Contents: Putting the "new" in the new Iranian cinema : post-revolutionary Iranian cinema as art cinema -- From Iran to Hollywood and some places in-between : Iranian e´migre´ filmmaking -- Close up 1 : Amir Naderi -- Close up 2 : Sohrab Shahid Saless -- Conclusion : Iranian cinema in long shot
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Genre, gender, race and world cinema : an anthology / Edited by Julie F. Codell Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
Call No: 62(082) GENAuthor: Codell, Julie F. Source: USPlace: Malden, MassachusettsPublisher: Blackwell PublishingPubDate: 2006PhysDes: ix, 474 pages ; 25 cmSubject: ASIANS IN FILMS ; BOLLYWOOD ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM ; FILM NOIR ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; GENRES ; WORLD CINEMA ; GLOBALISATION ; RACE AND THE CINEMA ; IDENTITY IN FILMS ; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; IRAN ; MELODRAMA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA ; RACE AND THE CINEMA ; RACIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS ; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS ; WORLD CINEMA ; KAIGE, CHEN ; NAIR, MIRA ; CRYING GAME, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1992) ; FIGHT CLUB (US, David Fincher, 1999) ; HSI YEN (TZ, Ang Lee, 1993) ; INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD, THE (US, Frank Oz, 1995) ; ORLANDO (UK/RU/FR/NE, Sally Potter, 1992) ; POCAHONTAS (US, Mike Gabriel & Eric Goldberg, 1995) ; SMOKE SIGNALS (US, Chris Eyre, 1998) ; ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999)
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TODO SOBRE MI MADRE ; TODO SOBRE MI MADRE (SP/FR, Pedro Almodovar, 1999) ; TRAFFIC (US, Steven Soderbergh, 2000) Summary: "a collection of essays that introduces the study of film theory through contemporay issues...Using four topics- genre, gender, race, and 'third cinema' - the book encourages critical discussions of films by students with a beginner's knowledge of film history. American, Asian, European and African cinema are all included."ISBN: 1405132337Contents: Preface -- General introduction: film and identities --; Part I Genres: ever-changing hybrids -- Introduction and further reading -- Conclusion: a semantic/syntactic/pragmatic approach to genre: Rick Altman -- Film bodies: gender, genre, and excess: Linda Williams -- The body and Spain: Pedro Almodovar's 'All About My Mother': Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz -- Enjoy your fight! - 'Fight Club' as a symptom of the network society: Bulent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen -- Film and changing technologies: Laura Kipnis -- Postmodern cinema and Hollywood culture in an age of corporate colonization: Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard --; Part II Genders: more than two -- Introduction and further reading -- Mobile identities, digital stars, and post cinematic selves: Mary Flanagan -- "Nothing is as it seems": re-viewing 'The Crying Game': Lola Young -- Crying over the melodramatic penis: melodrama and male nudity in the films of the 90s: Peter Lehman -- Travels with Sally Potter's 'Orlando': gender, narrative, movement: Julianne Pidduck -- Body matters: the politics of provocation in Mira Nair's films: Alpana Sharma -- Cowgirl Tales: Yvonne Tasker --; Part III Race: stereotypes and multiple realisms -- Introduction and further reading -- The family changes colour: interracial families in contemporary Hollywood cinema: Nicola Evans -- Black on white: film noir and the epistemology of race in recent African American cinema: Dan Flory -- Becoming Asian American: Chan is missing: Peter X. Feng -- 'The Wedding Banquet': global Chinese cinema and the Asian American experience: Gina Marchetti -- Another fine example of the oral tradition? Identification and subversion in Sherman Alexie's 'Smoke Signals': Jhon Warren Gilroy -- Playing Indian in the nineties: 'Pocahontas' and 'The Indian in the Cupboard': Pauline Turner Strong -- "You are alright, but..." Individual and collective representations of Mexicans, Latinos, Anglo-Americans and African-Americans in Steven Soderbergh's 'Traffic': Deborah Shaw --; Part IV World cinema: joining local and global -- Introduction and further reading -- Theorizing "third-world" film spectatorship: the case of Iran and Iranian cinema: Hamid Naficy -- The open image: poetic realism and the new Iranian cinema: Shohini Chaudhuri and Howard Finn -- The seductions of homecoming: place, authenticity and Chen Kaige's 'Temptress Moon': Rey Chow -- Cultural identity and diaspora in contemporary Hong Kong cinema: Julian Stringer -- "And yet my heart is still Indian": the Bombay film industry and the (H)indianization of Hollywood: Tejaswini Ganti -- Future past: integrating orality into Francophone West African film: Melissa Thackway -- Acknowledgements
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Humor in Middle Eastern cinema / edited by Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c2014.
Call No: 732(5-011) HUMAuthor: Revi, Gayatri (ed.) ; Rahman, Najat (ed.) Source: USPlace: DetroitPublisher: Wayne State University PressPubDate: c2014PhysDes: 282 pages ; 23 cmSeries: Contemporary approaches to film and mediaSubject: AFGHANISTAN ; ARAB COUNTRIES ; ARABS IN FILMS ; AUDIENCE RECEPTION ; BOLLYWOOD ; CENSORSHIP ; COMEDIES. MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES ; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM. US ; EGYPT ; HUMOUR IN FILMS ; INDIA ; IRAN ; IRAQ ; ISRAEL ; IRONY IN FILMS ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; PALESTINE ; POLITICAL FILMS ; RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS ; SATIRE IN FILMS ; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS ; PAKISTAN ; CHAHINE, YOUSSEF ; DHOUIB, MONCEF ; KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS ; ZARHIN, SHEMI ; AMERIKALI (TU, Serif Gören, 1993) ; BAD MA RA KHAHAD BORD (IR/FR, Abbas Kiarostami, 1999) ; DIVINE INTERVENTION (FR/MR/G/PA, Elia Suleiman, 2002) ; ISKANDERIJA...LIH? (UA/AE, Youssef Chahine, 1978) ; ALEXANDRIA...WHY? (UA/AE, Youssef Chahine, 1978) ; TELE ARRIVE, LA (TI, Moncef Dhouib, 2006) ; TERE BIN LADEN (II, Abhishek Sharma, 2010) ; TV IS COMING, THE (TI, Moncef Dhouib, 2006) Summary: "While Middle Eastern culture does not tend to be associated with laughter and levity in the global imagination, humor—often satirical—has long been a staple of mainstream Arabic film. In Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema, editors Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman shed light on this tradition, as well as humor and laughter motivated by other intent—including parody, irony, the absurd, burlesque, and dark comedy. Contributors trace the proliferation of humor in contemporary Middle Eastern cinema in the works of individual directors and from the perspectives of genre, national cinemas, and diasporic cinema. Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema explores what humor theorists have identified as an “emancipatory,” “liberatory,” even “revolutionary” function to humor. Among the questions contributors ask are: How does Middle Eastern cinema and media highlight the stakes and place of humor in art and in life? What is its relation to the political? Can humor in cinematic art be emancipatory? What are its limits for its intervention or transformation? Contributors examine the region’s masterful auteurs, such as Abbas Kiarostami, Youssef Chahine, and Elia Suleiman and cover a range of cinematic settings, including Egypt, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey. They also trace diasporic issues in the distinctive cinema of India and Pakistan. This insightful collection will introduce readers to a variety of contemporary Middle Eastern cinema that has attracted little critical notice. Scholars of cinema and media studies as well as Middle Eastern cultural history will appreciate this introduction to a complex and fascinating cinema." -- GOOGLE BOOKSNotes: Contains bibliography and filmography -- contains index -- contains list of contributorsISBN: 9780814339374Contents: Introduction / Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman -- Humor, loss, and the possibility for politics in recent Palestinian cinema / Najat Rahman -- Strategies of subversion in Ben Ali's Tunisia: allegory and satire in Moncef Dhouib's TV Is Coming / Robert Lang -- Satiric traversals in the comedy of Mehran Modiri: space, irony, and national allegory on Iranian television / Cyrus Ali Zargar -- Ethnic humor, stereotypes, and cultural power in Israeli cinema / Elise Burton -- The laughter of Youssef Chahine / Najat Rahman -- Comedic meditations: war and genre in The Outcasts / Somy Kim -- Humor and the cinematic sublime in Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us / Gayatri Devi -- America the oppressively funny: humor and anti-americanisms in modern Turkish cinema / Perin Gurel -- Laughter across borders: the case of the Bollywood film Tere Bin Laden / Mara Matta
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Iran oder, das ende von 1001 Nacht in Films F.R. Germany (1979) vol.5 p.19
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Life and art : the new Iranian cinema / edited by Rose Issa and Sheila Whitaker London: British Film Institute, 1999.
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Post-revolutionary Iranian cinema / [The General Department of Cinematographic Research and Relations, Ministry of Ershad-e Eslami] Tehran: The General Department of Cinematographic Research and Relations, Ministry of Ershad-e Eslami, 1982.
Call No: 71(55) POSPlace: TehranPublisher: The General Department of Cinematographic Research and Relations, Ministry of Ershad-e EslamiPubDate: 1982PhysDes: 121 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cmSubject: IRAN Summary: Catalogue of features and short films made in the immediate years after the overthrow of the Shah until this booklet's publication
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A Selection of Iranian films
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held 1987-1997 [incomplete]CorpAuthor: Farabi Cinema FoundationSubject: IRAN ; FILMOGRAPHIES
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A social history of Iranian cinema / Hamid Naficy Durham, NC ; London: Duke University Press, 2011.
Call No: 71(55) NAFAuthor: Naficy, Hamid Source: US/UKPlace: Durham, NC ; LondonPublisher: Duke University PressPubDate: 2011PhysDes: 4 v. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: IRAN ; MAKHMALBAF, MOHSEN ; KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS ; PANAHI, JAFAR Summary: The fourth volume in a series about Iranian film. This book specically focuses on 'Globalization Era' from 1984-2010 and includes information about Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Marzieh Makhmalbaf, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abbas Kiarostami and Ebrahim MokhtariISBN: 9780822347750 (v. 1)-- 9780822347743 (v. 2)-- 9780822348771 (v. 3)Contents: v. 1. The artisanal era, 1897-1941 -- v. 2. The industrializing years, 1941-1978 -- v. 3. The Islamicate period, 1978-1984 -- v. 4. The globalizing era, 1984-2010
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Ten London: British Film Institute, 2005.
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ANDAuthor: Andrew, Geoff Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2005PhysDes: 87 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm; Press kitSeries: BFI Modern ClassicsSubject: 10 [TEN] (FR/IR, Abbas Kiarostami, 2002) ; IRAN Summary: In this study, Geoff Andrew looks at 10 within the context of Kiarostami’s career, of Iranian cinema’s recent renaissance, and of international film culture. Drawing on a number of detailed interviews he conducted with both Kiarostami and his lad actress, Andrew sheds light on the unusual methods used in making the film, on its political relevance, and on its remarkably subtle aesthetic. He also argues that 10 was an important turning-point in the career of a film-maker who is not only one of the contemporary cinema’s most accomplished practitioners but also one of its most radical experimentalists.ISBN: 184457069
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Traditions in world cinema / Linda Badley, R. Barton Palmer and Steven Jay Schneider (eds) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
Call No: 709 TRASource: UKPlace: EdinburghPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPubDate: 2006PhysDes: 266 p. : 24 cmSubject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; GLOBALISATION ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY ; NEOREALISM ; NOUVELLE VAGUE ; EXPRESSIONISM ; CZECHOSLOVAKIA ; BRITAIN ; DOGMA ; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA ; BRAZIL ; ARGENTINA ; AFRICA IN FILMS ; ISRAEL ; IRAN ; INDIA ; CHINA ; MELODRAMA ; SONGS IN FILMS ; JAPAN ; HORROR FILMS ; USA Summary: The core volume in the Traditions in World Cinema series, this book brings together a colourful and wide-ranging collection of world cinematic traditions – national, regional and global – all of which are in need of introduction, investigation and, in some cases, reassessment. Topics include: German expressionism, Italian neorealism, French New Wave, British new wave, Czech new wave, Danish Dogma, post-Communist cinema, Brazilian post-Cinema Novo, new Argentine cinema, pre-revolutionary African traditions, Israeli persecution films, new Iranian cinema, Hindi film songs, Chinese wenyi pian melodrama, Japanese horror, new Hollywood cinema and global found footage cinemas.ISBN: 0748618635
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True variety : Funding the art of world cinema 2003.
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Variety international film guide 1993 / edited by Peter Cowie London Hollywood: Andre Deutsch Samuel French, c1993.
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