World cinema and the visual arts [
World Cinema and the Visual Arts' combines new analyses of two subjects of ongoing research in the field of humanities: cinema and the visual arts. The films analysed encompass a wide geographical base, and have been drawn from a diverse array of cultural traditions
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Anthem Press ,
c2012
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| Series: | New perspectives on world cinema
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Projecting a more habitable globe : Hollywood?s yellow peril and its refraction onto 1930s Shanghai National Cinema
- 2. Berlin - the city of sound and sensation in Fritz Lang's M and E. A. Dupont's Variete
- 3. Bond's body : diamonds are forever, Casino Royale and the Future Anterior
- 4. Whatever you say, say nothing
- 5. Imperial Gazes, Hollywood predators : a cinema of molestation in postcolonial Indian literature
- 6. Linguistic identity in Fruit Chan's 1997 trilogy
- 7. The postnational and the aesthetics of the spectral : Hou Hsiao-Hsien?s flight of the Red Balloon
- 8. The art object as text in the practice of comparative visuality
- 9. Exploring in-humanity : Gertrude Stein?s tender buttons and still-life painting
- 10. Re-defining art : Manuel Rivas? Mujer en el baٌo
- 12. Re-envisioning the haunting past : Kara Walker?s art and the re-appropriation of the visual codes of the Antebellum South