World on Film

Martha P. Nochimson has taught in the Department of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and at Mercy College, where she developed and chaired a program in Film Studies, and she is the author of four other books, including her internationally acclaimed studies The Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Hollywood (1997); Dying to Belong: Gangster Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007); No End to Her: Soap Opera and the Female Subject; and Screen Couple Chemistry: The Power of 2. Dr. Nochimson has been invited to appear on television in her capacity as a film and media critic in the United States, Canada, and France, and she has covered international film festivals in New York, Montreal, and Istanbul for over a decade. Her numerous articles about world film and interviews of major directors have appeared in Cineaste,Film Quarterly, and The New Review of Film and Television Studies. Further information is available at her website http://www.marthapnochimson.com/.

• Acknowledgments ix How to Use This Book xPart I Nations Make Movies 1Introduction: Other Languages, Other Stories 2The Point, So Far 11Talking about International Film 11National Film Cultures 14Questions in the Chapters 18Summary 19For Further Thought 21Projects 21Further Reading 221 France: French Revolutions at the Movies 23The Movies Are Born in France 28Case Study: Jean Renoir 31Renoir’s Peers and the Golden Age of French Cinema 38For Further Thought 44Projects 44The Fourth and Fifth Republics and the Prologue to the New Wave 45The New Wave 49Case Study: Jean-Luc Godard 51Beyond the New Wave 62For Further Thought: Dogme 95 68Mini Research Mission 68Projects 69Further Reading 692 Russia: Utopia and Dystopia 71The Russian Revolution and the Golden Age of Soviet Cinema 76Stalinism and the Ebb and Resurgence of Soviet Cinema 89For Further Thought 91Projects 92New Freedoms 93Case Study: Andrei Tarkovsky 93Post-Soviet Cinema 101Mini Research Mission 106For Further Thought 106Projects 106Further Reading 1073 Germany: From Darkness toward Light 108Early History 113For Further Thought 123Projects 124Nazi Cinema and Beyond 124Case Study: Werner Herzog 136New German Cinema and the International Community 142Mini Research Mission 143For Further Thought: East German Cinema 143Projects 148Further Reading 1494 Italy: The Myth of History, Neorealism, and Beyond 150Italian Cinema and the Risorgimento 154The Evolution of Neorealism 158For Further Thought 173Projects 174Case Study: Federico Fellini 174Debating Italian Postwar Recovery 182Mini Research Mission 193For Further Thought 193Projects 194Further Reading 1945 Japan: Screening Feudalism and Modernism 195Early Film in Japan 198Meiji Era and Taishd Era Japanese Cinema (1896–1926) 202Film During the Shdwa Era 205Case Study: Akira Kurosawa 214For Further Thought 224Projects 224The New Wave and Beyond 225Mini Research Mission 234For Further Thought 234Projects 235Further Reading 2366 India: Cinema of Combination and Contradiction 237Film in Colonial India 243Early Postcolonial Indian Film 247For Further Thought 256Projects 257Bollywood Takes Charge 258Case Study: Amitabh Bachchan 259Bollywood and Parallel Cinema 270Mini Research Mission 275For Further Thought 276Projects 277Further Reading 278Part II Movie Making in the Global Village 279Introduction: They Do It Their Way 280When Is a Film Foreign? 280Reading Movies in the Global Village 287Culture under a Microscope: A Modern Muddle or a 288New Mirror?Mini Research Mission 289For Further Thought 290Projects 290Further Reading 2917 Spain: Luis Buñuel, Playing with Ideas 292The Arc of Buñuel's Career 298Conclusion 306Mini Research Mission 306For Further Thought 307Projects 308Further Reading 3098 Sweden: Ingmar Bergman, Being and Nothingness 310The Arc of Bergman's Career 315Conclusion 326Mini Research Mission 327For Further Thought 327Projects 329Further Reading 3309 Hong Kong: Wong Kar-wai, Now You See It . . . 331The Arc of Wong’s Career 338Conclusion 349Mini Research Mission 350For Further Thought 351Projects 352Further Reading 35310 Senegal: Ousmane Sembene, Postcolonial Pioneer 354The Arc of Sembene's Career 359Conclusion 374Mini Research Mission 374For Further Thought 375Projects 376Further Reading 37711 Mainland China: Jia Zhangke, Freedom and the Sixth Generation 378The Arc of Jia's Career 385Conclusion 399Mini Research Mission 399For Further Thought 400Projects 401Further Reading 401Glossary 402Index 418