Sergei Eisenstein

Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich - syĭrgāˈ mēkhīˈləvĭch īˈzənshtīn, 1898–1948, Russian film director. An architect and engineer, he became interested in a theatrical career and worked as a scene designer and stage director (1920). He began his film career in 1924 with Strike, followed by Potemkin (1925) Read More...

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Eisenstein Rediscovered
by Ian Christie, Richard Taylor. 260 pgs.

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In Eisenstein Rediscovered Ian Christie and Richard Taylor present the first true East-West symposium on Eisenstein with an unparalleled diversity of views and methodologies. Two newly discovered texts by Eisenstein are here translated fro the first time, and all the contributors make extensive use of material only recently available - variant scripts, drawings, diaries and other writings - to probe behind the familiar facade. The 'new' Eisenstein that emerges is in all respects a more engaging and contemporary figure than is traditionally perceived, his wit, eroticism and exlectic passions defining a distinctively modern sensibility whose rediscovey is long overdue.

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Contents

Illustrations

General Editors' Preface

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration and Translation

Introduction

Part I: Eisenstein Studies Today: Text and Context

Chapter 1: Arguments and Ancestors

Chapter 2: Jay Leyda and Bezhin Meadow

Chapter 3: Eisenstein's Early Films Abroad

Chapter 4: Recent Eisenstein Texts

Part II: Eisenstein's Roots

Chapter 5: Eisenstein and Russian Symbolist Culture

Chapter 6: Eisenstein's Theatre Work

Chapter 7: Eisenstein's Pushkin Project

Chapter 8: Eisenstein and Shakespeare

Chapter 9: Graphic Flourish

Part III: The Practice of Theory

Chapter 10: Eisenstein as Theoretician Preliminary Considerations

Chapter 11: The Essential Bone Structure Mimesis in Eisenstein

Chapter 12: Eisenstein and the Theory of 'Models'; Or, How to Distract the Spectator's Attention

Chapter 13: Eisenstein and the Theory of the Photogram

Chapter 14: The Frame and Montage in Eisenstein's 'Later' Aesthetics

Notes

Index
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Ivan the Terrible, a Screenplay
by Sergei Eisenstein, Herbert Marshall, Ivor Montagu. 322 pgs.

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Introduction: Eisenstein's "Ivan"

The Screenplay

Part One

Prologue

Headfall Ring

The Hall of Gold

Kazan

The Palace Corridors

Ivan's Bedchamber

Ivan's Apartments

The Palace of Sigismund

A Dark Cathedral Interior. Night

The Outskirts of Moscow

Part Two

Anastasia's Bedchamber

The Metropolitan's Cell

The Cathedral. Joyful Carillon. The Fiery Furnace Play

At the Staritskys'

A Hall

The Castle of Wolmar

The "Terrible's" Library

Novgorod. Dawn

A Corner Within the Cathedral

The Palace of Sigismund

The Livonian Border

The Tsar's Hall in The Alexandrov Liberty

The Dark

The Hall

The Castle of Wolmar

Weissenstein Castle. Sunrise

Notes on the Translation

Notes on the Film Transcripts

My Drawings

From Sketches on the Margins

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About the Translators
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Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique (Chap. 2 "The Art of Montage: Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin")
by Marilyn Fabe. 279 pgs.

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"In "Closely Watched Films revered Film teacher Marilyn Fabe brings to life on the page the many lessons proffered in her legendary courses at U.C. Berkeley, in which she has taught successive generations of film students the art, and the magic, of film."--Linda Williams, Director of Film Studies, University of California, Berkeley
"I am deeply impressed by this book, and in awe of its scope. It imparts its wisdom about film with such seeming effortlessness, illuminating the ways that films work. "Closely Watched Films is very lucidly and smoothly crafted, and Fabe writes with astonishing ease about a group of very complex and heterogeneous films. It is a extremely informed book and an extraordinary achievement."--Madelon Sprengnether, University of Minnesota, author of "Crying at the Movies
"Fills a real need, educating the literate moviegoer into an awareness of how film works. Writing in a clear prose that is nevertheless based on a complex awareness of film history, criticism, and technique, Fabe takes us through the diverse film strategies of exemplary classic directors who have significantly shaped the history of film and made it into a potent cultural force. At the same time, she provocatively elaborates the political and aesthetic concerns of a number of contemporary films to indicate the new directions in today's motion pictures."--Claire Kahane, SUNY-Buffalo, author of "Passions of the Voice: Hysteria, Narrative, and the Figure of the speaking Woman, 1850-1915
"This text fills a real niche--the scholarship is superior, and Fabe approaches her material in an original and stimulating manner. The writing is fluid and down to earth, yet also addresses relevant issues."--TimShively, De Anza College

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Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: D. W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation

2: Sergei Eisenstein's the Battleship Potemkin

3: F. W. Murnau's the Last Laugh and Charles Chaplin's the Adventurer

4: Howard Hawks's His Girl Friday

5: Orson Welles's Citizen Kane

6: Vittorio De Sica's the Bicycle Thief

7: François Truffaut's the 400 Blows

8: Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious

9: Federico Fellini's 8 1/2

10: Woody Allen's Annie Hall

11: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing

12: Patricia Rozema's I'Ve Heard the Mermaids Singing

13: Digital Video and New Forms of Narrative in Mike Figgis's Timecode

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index
4 .

The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture (Chap. Twelve "Sergei Eisenstein's Gnostic Circle")
by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal. 468 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: Ancient Beliefs in Modern Times

Chapter One: Magic and Divination Old Russian Sources

Chapter Two: Three Instances of the Peasant Occult in Russian Literature

Chapter Three: Russian Religious Thought and the Jewish Kabbala

Part Two: Varieties of Early Twentieth-Century Occultism

Chapter Four: The Shade of Lucifer's Dark Wing

Chapter Five: Fashionable Occultism

Chapter Six: Anthroposophy in Russia

Part Three: From Magic to "Science"

Chapter Seven: Fedorov's Transformations of the Occult

Chapter Eight: Russian Cosmism in the 1920s and Today

Chapter Nine: Technology as Esoteric Cosmology in Early Soviet Literature

Part Four: Transformations of the Occult in Stalin's Time

Chapter Ten: The Magic of Words Symbolism, Futurism, Socialist Realism

Chapter Eleven: An Occult Source of Socialist Realism

Chapter Twelve: Sergei Eisenstein's Gnostic Circle

Chapter Thirteen: The Occult in the Prose of Vsevolod Ivanov

Part Five: The Occult since Stalin

Chapter Fourteen: Daniil Andreev and the Mysticism of Femininity

Appendix: Synopsis of Roza Mira

Chapter Fifteen: The Occult in Russia Today

Instead of a Conclusion

Chapter Sixteen: Political Implications of the Early Twentieth- Century Occult Revival

Appendix Source Materials

About the Contributors

Index
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Classical Myth & Culture in the Cinema (Chap. IX "Ancient Poetics and Eisenstein's Films")
by Martin M. Winkler. 350 pgs.

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Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema is a collection of essays presenting a variety of approaches to films set in Ancient Greece and Rome and to films that reflect archetypal features of classical literature. The book illustrates the continuing presence of antiquity in the most varied and influential medium of modern popular culture. The diversity of content and theoretical stances found in Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema will make this volume required reading for scholars and students interested in the presence of Greece and Rome in modern popular culture.

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Contributors

Classical Myth & Culture in the Cinema

Introduction

I: The Katabasis Theme in Modern Cinema

II: Verbal Odysseus: Narrative Strategy in the Odyssey and in the Usual Suspects

III: Michael Cacoyannis and Irene Papas on Greek Tragedy

IV: Eye of the Camera, Eye of the Victim: Iphigenia by Euripides and Cacoyannis

V: Iphigenia: a Visual Essay

VI: Tragic Features in John Ford's the Searchers

VII: An American Tragedy: Chinatown

VIII: Tricksters and Typists: 9 to 5 as Aristophanic Comedy

IX: Ancient Poetics and Eisenstein's Films

X: Film Sense in the Aeneid

XI: Peter Greenaway's the Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover: a Cockney Procne

XII: The Social Ambience of Petronius' Satyricon and Fellini Satyricon

XIII: Star Wars and the Roman Empire

XIV: Teaching Classical Myth and Confronting Contemporary Myths

XV: The Sounds of Cinematic Antiquity

Index
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Film Feminisms: Theory and Practice (Chap. 2 "Reading Eisenstein")
by Mary C. Gentile. 184 pgs.

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Recent Titles in Contributions in Women's Studies

Contents

Acknowledgments

Part I: FILM THEORIES AND FEMINISM

Introduction

1: Critical Subjectivity

NOTES

2: Reading Eisenstein

NOTES

3: Reading Bazin

NOTES

4: Directions for Feminist Film

NOTES

Part II: THEORY IN PRACTICE

Introduction

NOTES

5: Márta Mészáros and Women:

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6: Helke Sander's Redupers: Personality-In-Process

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7: How to Have Your Narrative and Know It, Too: Yvonne Rainer's Film About a Woman Who . . .

NOTES

8: Feminist or Tendentious? Marleen Gorris' a Question of Silence

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APPENDIX Film Credits and Distributors

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Theories of Film (Chap. 2 "Eisenstein: Great Beginnings")
by Andrew Tudor. 168 pgs.

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1: Introduction

2:: Eisenstein: Great Beginnings

3: the Problem of Context: John Grierson

5: Critical Method: Auteur and Genre

6: Epilogue

Bibliography

Acknowledgements
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The Major Film Theories: An Introduction (Chap. 3 "Sergei Eisenstein")
by J. Dudley Andrew. 278 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

Introduction

I: The Formative Tradition

1: Hugo Munsterberg

2: Rudolf Arnheim

3: Sergei Eisenstein

4: Bela Balazs and the Tradition of Formalism

II: Realist Film Theory

5: Siegfried Kracauer

6: Andre Bazin

III: Contemporary French Film Theory

7: Jean Mitry

8: Christian Metz and the Semiology of the Cinema

9: The Challenge of Phenomenology: Amedee Ayfre and Henri Agel

Notes

Bibliography

Index
9 .

Camera Obscura, Camera Lucida: Essays in Honor of Annette Michelson ("Eisenstein's Philosophy of Film" begins on p. 127)
by Richard Allen, Malcolm Turvey. 294 pgs.

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Annette Michelson’s contributions to art and film criticism over the last three decades have been unparalleled. This volume honors her unique legacy with original essays by some of the many scholars who have been influenced by her work. Some continue her efforts to develop theoretical frameworks for understanding modernist art, while others practice her form of interdisciplinary criticism in relation to avant-garde and modernist art works and artists. Still others investigate and evaluate Michelson’s work itself. All in some way pay homage to her extraordinary contribution.

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Camera Obscura, Camera Lucida:: Essays in Honor of Annette Michelson

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Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

The Logic of an Illusion: Notes on the Genealogy of Intellectual Cinema

Narcissistic Machines and Erotic Prostheses

Loïe Fuller and the Art of Motion: Body, Light, Electricity, and the Origins of Cinema

Visitings of Awful Promise: The Cinema Seen from Etna

Transfiguring the Urban Gray: László Moholy-Nagy's Film Scenario `Dynamic of the Metropolis'

Eisenstein's Philosophy of Film

Knight's Moves

Hitchcock and Narrative Suspense: Theory and Practice

From the Air: A Genealogy of Antonioni's Modernism

Dr. Strangelove: Or: the Apparatus of Nuclear Warfare

Collection and Recollection: On Film Itineraries and Museum Walks

Afterward: a Matter of Time: Analog Versus Digital, the Perennial Question of Shifting Technology and Its Implications for an Experimental Filmmaker's Odyssey

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List of Contributors

Index
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A History of Narrative Film (Discussion of Sergei Eisenstein begins on p. 140)
by David A. Cook. 1087 pgs.

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A History of Narrative Film

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Preface

Preface to the Third Edition

Acknowledgments

A Note on Method

A Note on Supplementary Material

A Note on Dates, Titles, and Stills

1: Origins

2: International Expansion, 1907-1918

3: D. W. Griffith and the Development of Narrative Form

4: German Cinema of the Weimar Period, 1919-1929

5: Soviet Silent Cinema and the Theory of Montage, 1917-1931

6: Hollywood in the Twenties

7: The Coming of Sound and Color, 1926-1935

8: The Sound Film and the American Studio System

9: Europe in the Thirties

10: Orson Welles and the Modern Sound Film

11: Wartime and Postwar Cinema: Italy and the United States, 1940-1951

12: Hollywood, 1952-1965

13: The French New Wave and Its Native Context

14: New Cinemas in Britain and the English-Speaking Commonwealth

15: European Renaissance: West

16: European Renaissance: East

17: The Former Soviet Union, 1945-Present

18: Wind from the East: Japan, India, and China

19: Third World Cinema

20: Hollywood, 1965—present

Glossary

Selective Bibliography for the Third Edition

Index
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An American Tragedy: The Shotgun Wedding of Moscow and Hollywood: Thomas Doherty Examines a Series of Conflicts between Left-Wing Artists and Movie Moguls at the Time of Sergei Eisentein's Brief Sojourn in Tinseltown in the 1930s, in History Today
by Thomas Doherty. 7 pgs.

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The Oxford History of World Cinema ("Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948)" begins on p. 168)
by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. 824 pgs.

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From its humble beginnings as a novelty in a handful of cities, cinema has risen to become a billion-dollar industry and the most spectacular and original contemporary art form. In The Oxford History of World Cinema, an international team of film historians traces the history of this enduringly popular entertainment medium. Covering all aspects of its development, stars, studios, and cultural impact, the book celebrates and chronicles over one hundred years of diverse achievement from westerns to the New Wave, from animation to the avant-garde, and from Hollywood to Hong Kong. The Oxford History of World Cinema tells the story of the major inventions and developments in the cinema business, its institutions, genres, and personnel, and they outline the evolution of national cinemas round the world--the varied and distinctive film traditions that have developed alongside Hollywood. A unique aspect of the book are the special inset features on the film-makers and personalities--Garbo and Godard, Keaton and Kurosawa, Bugs Bunny and Bergman--who have had an enduring impact in popular memory and cinematic lore. With over 280 illustrations, a full bibliography, and an extensive index, this is the buff's ultimate guide to cinema worldwide.

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Acknowledgements

Contributors

Contents

Special Features

List of Colour Illustrations

General Introduction

1: Silent Cinema 1895-1930

Introduction

Origins and Survival

Bibliography

Early Cinema

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Transitional Cinema

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The Hollywood Studio System

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The World-Wide Spread of Cinema

The First World War and the Crisis in Europe

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Tricks and Animation

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Comedy

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Documentary

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Cinema and the Avant-Garde

Serials

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French Silent Cinema

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Italy: Spectacle and Melodrama

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British Cinema from Hepworth to Hitchcock

Germany: the Weimar Years

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The Scandinavian Style

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Pre-Revolutionary Russia

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The Soviet Union and the Russian émigrés

Yiddish Cinema in Europe

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Japan: Before the Great Kanto Earthquake

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Music and the Silent Film

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The Heyday of the Silents

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2: Sound Cinema 1930-1960

Introduction

The Introduction of Sound

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Hollywood: the Triumph of the Studio System

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Censorship and Self-Regulation

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The Sound of Music

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Technology and Innovation

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Animation

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Cinema and Genre

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The Western

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The Musical

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Crime Movies

The Fantastic

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Documentary

Socialism, Fascism, and Democracy

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The Popular Art of French Cinema

Italy from Fascism to Neo-Realism

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Britain at the End of Empire

Germany: Nazism and After

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East Central Europe Before the Second World War

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Soviet Film Under Stalin

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Indian Cinema: Origins to Independence

China Before 1949

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The Classical Cinema in Japan

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The Emergence of Australian Film

Cinema in Latin America

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After the War

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Transformation of the Hollywood System

Independents and Mavericks

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3: The Modern Cinema 1960-1995

Introduction

Television and the Film Industry

The New Hollywood

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New Technologies

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Sex and Sensation

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The Black Presence in American Cinema

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Exploitation and the Mainstream

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Dreams and Nightmares in the Hollywood Blockbuster

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CinÉma-VÉritÉ and the New Documentary

Avant-Garde Film: the Second Wave

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Animation in the Post-Industrial Era

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Modern Film Music

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Art Cinema

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New Directions in French Cinema

Italy: Auteurs and After

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Spain After Franco

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British Cinema: the Search for Identity

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The New German Cinema

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East Germany: the Defa Story

Changing States in East Central Europe

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Russia After the Thaw

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Cinema in the Soviet Republics

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Turkish Cinema

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The Arab World

The Cinemas of Sub-Saharan Africa

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Iranian Cinema

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India: Filming the Nation

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Indonesian Cinema

China After the Revolution

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Popular Cinema in Hong Kong

Taiwanese New Cinema

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The Modernization of Japanese Film

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New Australian Cinema

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New Zealand Cinema

Canadian Cinema/Cinéma Canadien

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New Cinemas in Latin America

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New Concepts of Cinema

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The Resurgence of Cinema

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Index

List of Picture Sources

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