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Storytelling in World Cinemas: Contexts
Khatib
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Paperback. Editor(s): Khatib, Lina. Num Pages: 224 pages, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 350. Contexts. 224 pages, 15 black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Khatib, Lina. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: APFA. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 13. Weight: 350.
Storytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 2: Contexts addresses the questions of what and why particular stories are told in films around the world, both in terms of the forms of storytelling used, and of the political, religious, historical, and social contexts informing cinematic storytelling. Drawing on films from all five continents, the book approaches storytelling from a cultural/historical multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on the influence of cultural politics, postcolonialism, women's social and cultural positions, and religious contexts on film stories. Like its sister volume, Storytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 1: Forms, this book is an innovative addition to the academic study ... Read more
Storytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 2: Contexts addresses the questions of what and why particular stories are told in films around the world, both in terms of the forms of storytelling used, and of the political, religious, historical, and social contexts informing cinematic storytelling. Drawing on films from all five continents, the book approaches storytelling from a cultural/historical multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on the influence of cultural politics, postcolonialism, women's social and cultural positions, and religious contexts on film stories. Like its sister volume, Storytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 1: Forms, this book is an innovative addition to the academic study ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231163378
SKU
V9780231163378
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About Khatib
Lina Khatib leads the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. She is the author of Filming the Modern Middle East: Politics in the Cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab World (2006) and Lebanese Cinema: Imagining the Civil War and Beyond (2008).
Reviews for Storytelling in World Cinemas: Contexts
Superb essays that should enlighten both the common reader and the film critic. The European Legacy