World Cinema Through Global Genres

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Costanzo, William V.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014.
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.

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505 0 |a Intro -- World Cinema through Global Genres -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- How to Use This Book -- Introduction -- Unit I The Warrior Hero -- Chapter 1 The Warrior Hero -- The Western Hero and the Samurai -- Men with Guns: The Western Hero -- Men with Swords: The Samurai Tradition -- Enchanted Swords and Flying Fists: Wuxia and Kung Fu -- Evolution of the Wuxia Hero -- Zhang Yimou's "Hero" and Chinese Aesthetics -- The Kung Fu Craze Begins -- Hong Kong's Movie Industry Comes of Age -- Kung Fu, Wuxia, and the Aesthetics of Action -- Filmography -- Notes 
505 8 |a Further Reading -- Deep Focus on Chinese Cinemas -- The Three Chinas -- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Making of a Transnational Chinese-Language Film -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Close-up The Magnificent Seven -- Questions -- Notes -- Further Reading and Other Media -- Close-up Seven Samurai -- Questions -- Note -- Further Reading -- Close-up Sholay -- Questions -- Note -- Further Reading -- Close-up Way of the Dragon -- Questions -- Notes -- Unit II The Weeding Film -- Chapter 2 The Wedding Film -- Questions of Genre and Myth -- Every Girl's Dream, Every Father's Nightmare 
505 8 |a Wedding Movies as Romantic Comedy -- Best Friends, Buddies, and Other Wedding Saboteurs -- Black Comedy and Dysfunctional Families: Wedding Films as Social Satire -- Arab Brides on the Border -- Rites of Passage, Icons of Success: The Mythology of Wedding Films -- Comparative Weddings 101 -- Towards a Definition of the Genre -- Filmography -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Deep Focus on Indian Cinemas -- Classical Indian Cinema -- History, Politics, and the Indian Film -- Native Aesthetics -- Song, Saris, Dance, and Stars -- Questions of Influence 
505 8 |a Bollywood in the 1990s: Hum Aapke Hain Koun...! and Family Wedding Films -- Bride and Prejudice: The Indian Diaspora and Beyond -- Global Bollywood and the Wedding Myth -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Close-up My Big Fat Greek Wedding -- Questions -- Notes -- Close-up Monsoon Wedding -- Questions -- Notes -- Close-up The Wedding Banquet -- Questions -- Notes -- Close-up Wedding in Galilee -- Questions -- Notes -- Unit III The Horror Film -- Chapter 3 The Horror Film -- Why We Watch Horror Films: The Thrill of Fear -- Vampires: The Evolution of a Monster -- Gothic Ghosts and Grand Guignol Gore 
505 8 |a Soundless Screams on Silent Screens -- The 1930s: Universal's Classic Monsters -- The 1940s: World War II and Horror Noir -- The 1950s: Creature Features and the Cold War -- The 1960s: Psychos and Zombies, Civil Rights and Vietnam -- The 1970s: Stalking the American Family -- The 1980s: Hauntings and Howlings in the Age of Reagan -- The 1990s: Postmodern Horror and Supernatural Realism at the End of the Millennium -- The New Millennium: Horror to the Extreme -- Filmography -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Deep Focus on Japanese Cinemas -- Early History and Culture -- Genres and Aesthetics -- Anime 
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