An exploration of the enduring classics, cult favorites, and contemporary blockbusters of Japanese cinema. It considers youth cinema and films depicting lower-class settings alongside discussions of popular narrative forms, including J-Horror, samurai cinema, anime, and the Japanese New Wave.
American independent cinema has undergone several incarnations since its emergence as an underground movement in the 1960s. In addition to essays on such genres as African American films, documentary, and queer cinema, this volume features new sections devoted to "brutal youth, " religion, and war movies.
The city's sprawling structure and rapid redevelopment - embodied by the high-rise apartments taking over historic districts - render Beijing's streets hard to navigate and its culture is just as difficult to penetrate. This book offers a revealing introduction to both.
A volume that takes as its subject not the genres or movements that constitute the cinema of the Land of the Rising Sun but the filmmakers themselves. Focusing entirely on directors, it offers over forty essays on key Japanese auteurs, ranging from the Golden Age to the New Wave to the present day.
This third volume of the successful Directory of World Cinema series to focus on American independent filmmaking presents in-depth essays on forty-four filmmakers who have primarily worked outside the mainstream or on its industrial margins. Contributors offer close analyses of the work of both widely acknowledged auteurs and little-known provocateurs who deserve much wider recognition. Major names discussed include Wes Anderson, Jim Jarmusch,...
A thorough overview of a thriving sector of cultural production, the Directory of World Cinema: American Independent chronicles the rise of the independent sector as an outlet for directors who challenge the status quo, yet still produce accessible feature films that find wide audiences and enjoy considerable box office appeal.
