World on film : an introduction /
Martha P. Nochimson.
- Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
- xi, 447 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Nations make movies. Introduction: other languages, other stories -- France: French revolutions at the movies -- Russia: utopia and dystopia -- Germany: from darkness toward light -- Italy: the myth of history, neorealism, and beyond -- Japan: screening feudalism and modernism -- India: cinema of combination and contradiction -- Moviemaking in the global village. Introduction: they do it their way -- Spain: Luis Buñuel, playing with ideas -- Sweden: Ingmar Bergman, being and nothingness -- Hong Kong: Wong Kar-Wai, now you see it-- -- Senegal: Ousmane Sembène, postcolonial pioneer -- Mainland China: Jia Zhangke, freedom and the sixth generation.