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Nochimson, Martha.

World on film : an introduction / Martha P. Nochimson. - Chichester, England. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. - xi, 447 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nations make movies. Introduction: other languages, other stories -- France: French revolutions at the movies -- Russia: utopia and dystopia -- Germany: from darkness toward light -- Italy: the myth of history, neorealism, and beyond -- Japan: screening feudalism and modernism -- India: cinema of combination and contradiction -- Moviemaking in the global village. Introduction: they do it their way -- Spain: Luis Bu�nuel, playing with ideas -- Sweden: Ingmar Bergman, being and nothingness -- Hong Kong: Wong Kar-Wai, now you see it-- -- Senegal: Ousmane Semb�ene, postcolonial pioneer -- Mainland China: Jia Zhangke, freedom and the sixth generation.

ISBN: 9781405139786 (hc : alk. paper) 9781405139793 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1405139781 (hc : alk. paper) 140513979X (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
Geschichte.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Motion pictures.

LC Class. No.: PN1994 / .N55 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 792.09 / N757