World Cinema: A Critical Introduction

World Cinema- Front Cover
World Cinema
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of illustrations
	Figures
	Tables
	Disclaimer
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	The contemporary moment
	Polycentric world cinema
	Polymorphic world cinema
	Polyvalent world cinema
	Teaching world cinema
Chapter 1: What is world cinema?
	The antecedents: world literature and world music
	International, foreign, global, or world cinema
	Hollywood is not world cinema
	Polycentric, polymorphic, and polyvalent world cinema
	What world cinema is: from watching films to mapping cinema
Chapter 2: Watching world cinema
	Watching films in theaters
	The rise of the multiplex
	Art house cinemas
	Film societies, cine clubs, touring theaters
	Mobile media: VHS, VCD, DVD
	Home viewing, streaming, video on demand, and mobile screens
	Digital projection in theaters
Chapter 3: Film production and finance
	Hollywood’s interventions
	European production models
	Asian production models
	Indian production models
	Nigerian cinema/Nollywood
	Other models of production
Chapter 4: Film festivals and world cinema
	Film festivals and national cinema
	Film festivals and art cinema
	Film festivals and world cinema
	Digital delivery and the creation of global film culture
	The importance of smaller and regional film festivals:
the Sarajevo Film Festival
Chapter 5: Indian cinema and Bollywood
	Bollywood: what is in a name?
	Indian cinema’s spheres of influence
	Indian cinema after Bollywoodization
	Indian theoretical perspectives
Chapter 6: African cinema and Nollywood
	Nollywood: what is in a name?
	Understanding Nollywood
	The New Nollywood
	Nollywood’s sphere of influence
	Nollywood and world cinema
	African theoretical perspectives
Chapter 7: Asian cinema
	Asia, regionalization, and Asian cinema
	Inter-Asian cultural sphere
	Categories of inter-Asian cinemas
	The localism of inter-Asian cinema
	Trans-Asian cinema
	Asian theoretical perspectives
Chapter 8: National formations
	National cinema
	Small and peripheral cinemas
Chapter 9: Transnational formations
	Transnational cinema
	Diasporic and postcolonial cinema
	Transnational women’s cinema
Chapter 10: Polyvalent world cinema
	Cognitive mapping
	Worldliness
	Worlding/world-making
Index