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Rosalind Galt
Offers innovative readings of several popular and influential European films of the 1990s. This title considers how these films, made around the time of the revolutions of 1989, grappled with…
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Film culture often rejects visually rich images, valuing simplicity, austerity, or even ugliness as more provocative, political, and truly cinematic. Although cinema challenges traditional ideas of art, this opposition to…
Film culture often rejects visually rich images, treating simplicity, austerity, or even ugliness as the more provocative, political, and truly cinematic choice. Cinema may challenge traditional ideas of art, but…
Karl Schoonover,Karl Schoonover
A collection of new essays on films from a range of geopolitical locations, Global Art Cinema reassesses the field of art cinema in light of 1) a flourishing international cinema…
Karl Schoonover,Rosalind Galt
Offering a new theory of queer world cinema, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how it intersects with shifting ideals of global politics and cinema aesthetics to demonstrate its potential…
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A collection of new essays on films from a range of geopolitical locations,Global Art Cinema reassesses the field of art cinema in light of 1) a flourishing international cinema and…
Rosalind Galt (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sussex)
The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures. Exploring how and why the pontianak found new life in postcolonial Southeast Asian film and society…
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