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Tauris World Cinema Series

The World Cinema Series explores cinemas in terms of their own contexts and traditions – as experienced by contemporary multicultural audiences worldwide, with contributions by writers working within those cinemas.

Clearly written for both academic and general interest readers, the books celebrate the richness and complexity of film art across the globe. Strands will include new approaches to World Film theory, new translations of classic works, books on New Cinemas focusing on recent film revivals, and re-assessments of major movements, genres, technologies and stars.

If you have any queries, ideas or submissions, please contact:
Series Editor: Professor Lúcia Nagib – l.nagib@leeds.ac.uk
Cinema Editor at I.B. Tauris: Philippa Brewster – philippabrewster@gmail.com

Advisory Board:

  • Laura Mulvey (UK)
  • Donald Ritchie (Japan)
  • Robert Stam (USA)
  • Ismail Xavier (Brazil)
Brazil on Screen Cinema Novo New Cinema and Utopia Cover

By adopting Utopia as a theme, this book unveils, organises and interprets recurrent images, which are a bridge between a cinema concerned with the national project and another informed by global culture. It presents a national cinema that rejects the end of film history, while benefiting from, and contributing to transnational aesthetics.

East Asian Cinemas Exploring Transnational Connections on Film Cover

Explores developments in the global popularity of East Asian cinema, from Chinese martial arts, through Japanese horror, to the burgeoning Korean cinema, with particular emphasis on crossovers, remakes, hybrids and co-productions. This book examines changing cinematic traditions in Asia alongside the 'Asianisation' of western cinema.

Lebanese Cinema Imagining the Civil War and Beyond Cover

Deals with Lebanese cinema and its links with politics and national identity. This book examines how Lebanon is imagined in such films as Jocelyn Saab's "Once Upon a Time, Beirut", Ghassan Salhab's "Terra Incognita", and Ziad Doueiri's "West Beirut".

New Argentine Cinema

In combining close comparative analyses with a review of the changing models of production, editing, actorship and location, Andermann uncovers the ways in which Argentine films have managed to construct a complex, multilayered account of their own present, as shot through -or 'perforated'- by the still unresolved legacies of the past.

New Directions in German Cinema Cover

Explores German language cinema's developments since 2000. This title examines just what German language film has to offer, from the evolution of the so-called 'heritage films' which dominate the country's mainstream and which examine Germany's problematic pasts, to those which focus on the contemporary social reality of the Berlin Republic.

New Directions in German Cinema Cover

Explores German language cinema's developments since 2000. This title examines just what German language film has to offer, from the evolution of the so-called 'heritage films' which dominate the country's mainstream and which examine Germany's problematic pasts, to those which focus on the contemporary social reality of the Berlin Republic.

New Turkish Cinema Belonging Identity and Memory Cover

Examines contemporary Turkish cinema. This book explores the emergence of Turkish cinema against the backdrop of the drastic transformation of Turkey since the 1990s. It argues that this cinema, including both commercial and independent productions, persistently returns to the themes of belonging, identity and memory.

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