Remapping World Cinema : Identity, Culture and Politics in Film

Acknowledgements vii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction Situating world cinema as a theoretical problem 1(18) Stephanie Dennison Song Hwee Lim REMAPPING WORLD CINEMA IN A POST-WORLD ORDER An atlas of world cinema 19(11) Dudley Andrew Towards a positive definition of world cinema 30(8) Lucia Nagib Latin American cinema: from underdevelopment to postmodernism 38(17) Michael Chanan CROSSING BOUNDARIES Export mythology: primitivism and paternalism in Pasolini, Hopper and Herzog 55(10) Keith Richards Mother lands, sister nations: the epic, poetic, propaganda films of Cuba and the Basque Country 65(8) Rob Stone The dialectics of transnational identity and female desire in four films of Claire Denis 73(16) Rosanna Maule CARNIVAL AND TRANSGRESSION Carnivalesque meets modernity in the films of Karl Valentin and Charlie Chaplin 89(12) David Robb The Bakhtinian headstands of East German cinema 101(17) Evelyn Preuss Shockumentary evidence: the perverse politics of the Mondo film 118(11) Mark Goodall PERFORMING STARDOM AND RACE `Telling the truth can be a dangerous business': stardom, race and Isabelle Adjani 129(6) Guy Austin The new Brazilian Bombshell: Sonia Braga, race and cinema in the 1970s 135(12) Stephanie Dennison INTERROGATING GENDER Canonising sexual image, devaluing gender performance: replacing the onnagata with female actresses in Japan's early cinema 147(14) Hideaki Fujiki Troubled masculinities: questioning gender and sexuality in Liu Bingjian's Nannan nunu (Men and Women) 161(12) Louise Williams HOLLYWOOD'S OTHERS Orientalism or occidentalism?: dynamics of appropriation in Akira Kurosawa 173(15) Rachael Hutchinson Consuming `Bollywood' in the global age: the strange case of an `unfine' world cinema 188(11) Kaushik Bhaumik Index 199