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Internet resource(s)
- Association of Film Commissioners InternationalThe Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI) is a non-profit educational organization founded in 1975 to serve the growing needs of film and television production.
Keeping up with the journal literature
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Find New Books in World Cinema or National Cinemas in the Library's Collections
Find new titles about world cinema or national cinemas in the library's collections.
Defining World cinema and National cinema
World cinema
A term used in film studies in a range of shifting and loosely overlapping senses, and implying different critical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives.
1. Cinema in a global sense, embracing all cinemas of the world. This approach informs varyingly exhaustive multinational surveys, historical and otherwise, of the world’s cinemas and also some studies of media globalization. Until the late 1990s this was the most commonplace usage and understanding of the term.
2. Postcolonial studies of Third World cinemas, including cinemas embodying non-mainstream attitudes to film content and/or film style. ...
Kuhn, A. & Westwell, G. (2020). World cinema. In A Dictionary of Film Studies. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 1 May 2021
National cinema
An influential organizing principle in film studies, locating films and cinemas within their national contexts and/or treating a country’s cinematic output as a distinct object of study. There are two underlying assumptions: firstly, that films produced within a particular national context will display some distillation of the historical, social, and political culture of that country; and secondly, that cinema (as one aspect of popular culture) plays a role in the construction of national identity. Until the 1980s, studies of national cinemas for the most part tended either to record histories of filmmaking in different countries; to document—and often to celebrate—the work of key auteur-directors whose films could be grounded within a particular national milieu; and/or to focus on a canon of ‘great’ films putatively embodying a national spirit. Ingmar Bergman’s films, for example, have been seen as coterminous with the cinema of Sweden, or at least as expressing something fundamental about the Swedish national character. Alternatively, particular themes, film styles, and genres have been read as in some sense ‘national’: the western in the US, for example; or cinéma vérité in France. Studies of national cinemas have also charted the ways in which cinema has been used purposefully as a means of consolidating—and even as constructing—national identities following independence struggles and decolonization (see Africa, film in; Arab cinema; postcolonialism) or social upheavals and revolutionary changes, as for example in Cuba and Iran. ...
Kuhn, A., & Westwell, G. (2020). National cinema. In A Dictionary of Film Studies. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 15 Aug. 2022
In the Library's collections
This guide is here to showcase films and film-making around the world. You can also find resources which look at how a country is portrayed in film. Various countries or areas are located in the tabs.
Each page will list selected book titles, any journal titles specific to that country's film industry and a very short, selected list of films available through streaming or in the Jones Media Center.
To find other films, search the Library's online catalog. The catalog contains all the titles we own or can stream.
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- motion picture producers and directorsInsert the name of a country, if you like. Most resources are in the call number range PN 1995.9 .P7 on Baker Stack Level 4.
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Introductory reading(s)
To see more resources found in the online catalog on world cinema, click here. The listings in this box are meant as a short introduction to world cinema.
- Directory of world cinemaCall Number: Check the online catalog for specific titlesEach volume covers a different country.
Film manifestos and global cinema cultures: a critical anthology by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995 .M2335 2014ISBN: 9780520276741Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by film manifestos in film-making and film culture. Focusing equally on political and aesthetic manifestos, Scott MacKenzie uncovers a neglected, yet nevertheless central history of the cinema, exploring a series of documents that postulate ways in which to re-imagine the cinema and, in the process, re-imagine the world. ...- Magill's survey of cinema, foreign language films byCall Number: Baker-Berry Ref. PN 1993.45 .M34 1985 v.1-8ISBN: 9780893562434The individual critical articles covering the 2,274 major films involved in these series represent a substantial study of cinema history to explicate the growth and development of the discipline from its relatively recent beginnings.
- National cinemas seriesCall Number: Check the online catalog to see specific titlesA series of books which profile the world of film in different countries.
The Oxford history of world cinema by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A1 O96 1996ISBN: 9780198112570From 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. It has spread to all parts of the globe, and is enjoyed by audiences that cut across all sections of society. The Oxford History of World Cinema 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. ...
Representing the rural: space, place, and identity in films about the land by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780814333051Although the urban setting in film has received much critical attention, little has been written about the use of land, or the rural, in the cinema-despite its equally prolific and consistent history as a backdrop to both fiction and documentary work. This collection demonstrates the viability of rural cinema as a benchmark of national identity by bringing into critical focus the space the rural occupies, both on cinema screens and in the national imagination. Whether rural space is figured as idyllic or troubled, mythological or historical, obsolete or perennial, this collection argues that it constitutes a rich medium through which to enunciate shifting concepts of identity and nationhood. ...
Shocking representation: historical trauma, national cinema, and the modern horror film by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780231132473In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and the Vietnam War. Lowenstein centers Shocking Representation around readings of films by Georges Franju, Michael Powell, Shindo Kaneto, Wes Craven, and David Cronenberg. ...
Storytelling in world cinemas by Call Number: eBooksISBN: 9780231162050Publication Date: Vol 1: Forms; Vol 2: ContextsStorytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 1: Forms is an innovative collection of essays that discuss how different cinemas of the world tell stories. ...
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. ...
Theorising national cinema by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A1 T43 2006ISBN: 9781844571208Why do we think of clusters of films as 'national cinema'? Why has the relationship between the nation and film become so widely and uncritically accepted? Theorising National Cinema is a major contribution to work on national cinema, by many of the leading scholars in the field. It addresses the knotty and complex relationship between cinema and national identity, showing that the nationality of a cinema production company, and the films that its made, have not always been seen as pertinent. The volume begins by reviewing and rethinking the concept of national cinema in an age of globalisation, and it goes on to chart the parallel developments of national film industries and the idea of a nation state in countries as diverse as Japan, South Korea, Russia, France and Italy. ...
Traditions in world cinema by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780748618637The core volume in the Traditions in World Cinema series, this book brings together a colourful and wide-ranging collection of world cinematic traditions - national, regional and global - all of which are in need of introduction, investigation and, in some cases, critical reassessment. ...- Variety international film guideCall Number: Library Depository PN 1993.3 .I544An annual for world cinema.
Women's cinema, world cinema: projecting contemporary feminisms by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780822358053In Women's Cinema, World Cinema, Patricia White explores the dynamic intersection of feminism and film in the twenty-first century by highlighting the work of a new generation of women directors from around the world ...
A world history of film by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A1 S555 2002ISBN: 9780130340498Publication Date: rev. & expand. ed.A World History of Film presents the entire history of motion pictures, from pre-cinema to the present. Providing a complete analysis of the principal films, directors, and national cinemas, it supplies a thorough grounding in the social, economic, and political circumstances critical to an understanding of film as both art and industry. In a highly readable narrative, Robert Sklar covers all significant periods and styles - not only commercial films and classical Hollywood cinema but also animation, documentaries, international art cinema, and the cinematic avant-garde. ...
Series - New Directions in National Cinemas
Find more titles in this series in the online catalog.
Cosmopolitan film cultures in Latin America, 1896-1960 by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780253025722Cosmopolitan Film Cultures in Latin America examines how cinema forged cultural connections between Latin American publics and film-exporting nations in the first half of the twentieth century. Predating today's transnational media industries by several decades, these connections were defined by active economic and cultural exchanges, as well as longstanding inequalities in political power and cultural capital. The essays explore the arrival and expansion of cinema throughout the region, from the first screenings of the Lumière Cinématographe in 1896 to the emergence of new forms of cinephilia and cult spectatorship in the 1940s and beyond. ...
Fashion in film by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .C56 F385 2011ISBN: 9780253356130The vital synergy between dress and the cinema has been in place since the advent of film. Broaching topics such as vampires, noir, and Marie Antoinette looks, Fashion in Film uncovers the way in which the alliance of these two powerhouse industries use myriad cultural influences -- shaping narrative, national identity, and all points in between. ...
Screening strangers: migration and diaspora in contemporary European cinema by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780253354532Yosefa Loshitzky challenges the utopian notion of a post-national "New Europe" by focusing on the waves of migrants and refugees that some view as a potential threat to European identity, a concern heightened by the rhetoric of the war on terror, the London Underground bombings, and the riots in Paris's banlieues. Opening a cinematic window onto this struggle, Loshitzky determines patterns in the representation and negotiation of European identity in several European films from the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged, Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things, Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine, and Michael Winterbottom's In This World, Code 46, and The Road to Guantanamo.
Screens and veils: Maghrebi women's cinema by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780253356680Examined within their economic, cultural, and political context, the work of women Maghrebi filmmakers forms a cohesive body of work. Florence Martin examines the intersections of nation and gender in seven films, showing how directors turn around the politics of the gaze as they play with the various meanings of the Arabic term hijab (veil, curtain, screen). Martin analyzes these films on their own theoretical terms, developing the notion of "transvergence" to examine how Maghrebi women's cinema is flexible, playful, and transgressive in its themes, aesthetics, narratives, and modes of address. ...
Other library resource(s)
Global cinema by Call Number: Electronic resourceThe history of media is a global history – involving the exchange of workers, styles, and technologies across national borders.
French publications, such as Cine-Journal and Cinéa, reveal the important contributions of French filmmakers to film history. However, these French periodicals also contain advertisements for American films and demonstrate the popularity of certain global stars, such as Charles Chaplin and Sessue Hayakawa (both of whom had careers that criss-crossed national borders).
Some publications themselves were transnational creations. American and Canadian film enthusiasts were among the readers of Home Movies & Home Talkies, the British magazine for amateur filmmakers. Meanwhile, J.P. Chalmers—publisher of the American trade paper Moving Picture World—also published Cine-Mundial for the Spanish language market. ...
A guide to world cinema: covering 7,200 films of 1950-84 including capsule reviews and stills from the programmes of the National Film Theatre, London by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995 .G84 1985ISBN: 9780905483337- The Holt foreign film guide by Call Number: Library Depository PN 1993.45 .B46 1989ISBN: 9780805009910An alphabetical list of movies from over 50 countries released in Great Britain. The Faber Companion to Foreign Films was published in the U.S. in 1992.
Streaming video services
Asian film online: volumes 1 & 2 by Call Number: Electronic resourceAsian Film Online offers a view of Asian culture as seen through the lens of the independent Asian filmmaker. Through a selection of over 1,000 narrative feature films, documentaries and shorts curated by film scholars and critics, the collection offers highly relevant perspectives and insights onto themes relevant across Asia, including modernity, globalization, female agency, social and political unrest, and cultural and sexual identity. ...
Digitalia film libraryCall Number: Streaming videoA collection of streaming films and documentaries from Spain, Latin America, the African continent and other countries. The library also contains a collection of classic North American films.
New world cinema: independent features & shorts, 1990-present by Call Number: Streaming videoThe collection includes approximately 200 full-length feature films from leading independent distributors such as Kino Lorber, First Run Features, Film Movement, MK2, and the Global Films Initiative. The narratives provide a window into a wide range of cultures and sociological issues around the world.
Silent film online by Call Number: Streaming videoSilent Film Online contains more than 1,000 streaming online titles. These films represent the foundation of modern cinematic technique and film theory.
Kanopy streaming by Call Number: Streaming videoKanopy Streaming is a media streaming service to which Dartmouth subscribes. There are several collections in this service including Criterion, the DEFA Library, foreign language films and many documentaries.
