The Routledge Companion to World Cinema (Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions)

The Routledge Companion to World Cinema explores and
examines a global range of films and filmmakers, their movements and
audiences, comparing their cultural, technological and political
dynamics, identifying the impulses that constantly reshape the form and
function of the cinemas of the world. Each of the forty chapters
provides a survey of a topic, explaining why the issue or area is
important, and critically discussing the leading views in the area.
Designed as a dynamic forum for forty world-leading scholars, this
companion contains significant expertise and insight and is dedicated to
challenging complacent views of hegemonic film cultures and replacing
outmoded ideas about production, distribution and reception. It offers
both a survey and an investigation into the condition and activity of
contemporary filmmaking worldwide, often challenging long-standing
categories and weighted--often politically motivated--value judgements,
thereby grounding and aligning the reader in an activity of remapping
which is designed to prompt rethinking.