LINDA BADLEY is Professor of English and Film Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. She is the author of Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic (1995), Writing Horror and the Body (1996), and Lars von Trier (2010), and the co-editor of Traditions in World Cinema (2006).R. BARTON PALMER is the Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University, where he directs the film studies program. He is the author, editor, or general editor of many books including Hollywood’s Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir (1994), After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality (2006), and A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film (2011).STEVEN JAY SCHNEIDER is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Media Culture at the City University of New York.

Traditions in World Cinema takes  sophisticated and wide-ranging approach… This collection contains plenty of useful and informative material [and] several chapters throw light on neglected corners of cinematic history.(Times Literary Supplement)

• Preface (Toby Miller)Introduction (Linda Badley & R. Barton Palmer)I. European Traditions1. German Expressionism (J.P. Telotte)2. Italian Neorealism (Peter Bondanella)3. The French New Wave (Richard Neupert)4. The British New Wave (R. Barton Palmer)II. Central, Eastern and Northern European Traditions5. The Czechoslovak New Wave (Peter Hames)6. Danish Dogma (Linda Badley)7. Post-Communist Cinema (Christina Stojanova)III. South American Traditions8. Post-Cinema Novo Brazilian Cinema (Randal Johnson)9. New Argentine Cinema (Myrto Konstantarakos)IV. African and Middle Eastern Traditions10. Early Cinematic Traditions in Africa (Roy Armes)11. Israeli Persecution Films (Nitzan Ben-Shaul)12. New Iranian Cinema (Negar Mottahedeh)V. Asian Traditions13. Popular Hindi Cinema and the Film Song (Corey Creekmur)14. Chinese Melodrama (Stephen Teo)15. Japanese Horror Cinema (Jay McRoy)VI. American and Transnational Traditions16. The 'New' American Cinema (Robert Kolker)17. The Global Art of Found Footage Cinema (Adrian Danks).

LINDA BADLEY is Professor of English and Film Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. She is the author of Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic (1995), Writing Horror and the Body (1996), and Lars von Trier (2010), and the co-editor of Traditions in World Cinema (2006).R. BARTON PALMER is the Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University, where he directs the film studies program. He is the author, editor, or general editor of many books including Hollywood’s Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir (1994), After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality (2006), and A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film (2011).STEVEN JAY SCHNEIDER is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Media Culture at the City University of New York.

Traditions in World Cinema takes  sophisticated and wide-ranging approach… This collection contains plenty of useful and informative material [and] several chapters throw light on neglected corners of cinematic history.(Times Literary Supplement)

• Preface (Toby Miller)Introduction (Linda Badley & R. Barton Palmer)I. European Traditions1. German Expressionism (J.P. Telotte)2. Italian Neorealism (Peter Bondanella)3. The French New Wave (Richard Neupert)4. The British New Wave (R. Barton Palmer)II. Central, Eastern and Northern European Traditions5. The Czechoslovak New Wave (Peter Hames)6. Danish Dogma (Linda Badley)7. Post-Communist Cinema (Christina Stojanova)III. South American Traditions8. Post-Cinema Novo Brazilian Cinema (Randal Johnson)9. New Argentine Cinema (Myrto Konstantarakos)IV. African and Middle Eastern Traditions10. Early Cinematic Traditions in Africa (Roy Armes)11. Israeli Persecution Films (Nitzan Ben-Shaul)12. New Iranian Cinema (Negar Mottahedeh)V. Asian Traditions13. Popular Hindi Cinema and the Film Song (Corey Creekmur)14. Chinese Melodrama (Stephen Teo)15. Japanese Horror Cinema (Jay McRoy)VI. American and Transnational Traditions16. The 'New' American Cinema (Robert Kolker)17. The Global Art of Found Footage Cinema (Adrian Danks).