Books in the Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series series

A study of the cinematic traditions and film practices in the black Diaspora. It includes essays by film scholars, film critics and film-makers, whose critical readings challenge assumptions of colonialist and ethnocentric discourses about the Third World, Hollywood and European ...cinemas.
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John Ford's classic film The Searchers was a product of post-World War II American culture, examining white racism and violence and its social and psychological origins. Here, historians and film scholars cover the major issues of the film as seen through a contemporary prism.

Analyzes a diverse body of films and investigates the renaissance that has taken place in German cinema since the turn of the twenty-first century.

This text presents the history of the German cinema through close readings of films representing five major periods: Weimar cinema, cinema in the Third Reich, postwar cinema, East German cinema, and the New German cinema.

In this anthology, filmmakers, psychoanalysts, film scholars and cultural historians use a psychoanalytic approach to examine Bernardo Bertolucci's film The Last Emperor (1988). The book is divided into four parts entitled Filmcraft , Psychoanalysis , Film Scholarship and Cultura...l History .
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