Lucia Nagib is Centenary Professor of World Cinema and Director of the Centre for World Cinemas, University of Leeds. She is Series Editor of Tauris' 'World Cinema Series'. Chris Perriam is Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Manchester. Rajinder Dudrah is Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies and Head of the Department of Drama, University of Manchester.

'This excellent collection reenergizes the study of world cinemas with its rigorous commitment to rethinking established theoretical concerns and ideas. This book is an indispensable reference for anyone interested in what the state of film theory is today.' - Professor Tim Bergfelder, University of Southampton; 'Theorizing World Cinema develops a polycentric approach to Film Studies that is truly groundbreaking.' - Professor Mette Hjort, Lingnan University, Hong Kong; 'The editors have brought together an impressive list of scholars, whose contributions offer compelling perspectives on film theory today, as it faces the challenges of a post-medium cinema and increasingly focuses on the experience of embodied and situated spectators.' - Professor Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam

• List of Illustrations (to be provided)Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Part I: The National Project 1.John Caughie‘Morvern Callar, Art Cinema and the ‘Monstrous Archive’”2.Ismail Xavier ‘On Film and Cathedrals: Monumental Art, National Allegories and Cultural Warfare’3.Ashish Rajadhyaksha ‘A Theory of Cinema that Can Account for Indian Cinema’Part II: The Transnational Project4.Paul Julian Smith ‘Transnational Cinemas: The Cases of Mexico, Argentina and Brazil’5.Chris Perriam‘Eduardo Noriega’s Transnational Projections’ 6.Felicia Chan‘From world cinema to World Cinema: Wong Kar-wai’s Ashes of Time and Ashes of Time Redux’Part III: The Diasporic Project7.Rajinder Dudrah ‘Beyond World Cinema? The Dialectics of Diasporic Cinema’8.Song Hwee Lim ‘Speaking in Tongues: Ang Lee, Accented Cinema, Hollywood’Part 4: The Realist Project 9.Geoffrey Nowell-Smith ‘From Realism to Neorealism’10.Lúcia Nagib ‘Oshima, Corporeal Realism and the Eroticized Apparatus’11.Tiago de Luca‘Realism of the Senses: A Tendency in World Cinema’12.Laura Mulvey‘Rear Projection and the Paradoxes of Hollywood Realism’Index

Lucia Nagib is Centenary Professor of World Cinema and Director of the Centre for World Cinemas, University of Leeds. She is Series Editor of Tauris' 'World Cinema Series'. Chris Perriam is Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Manchester. Rajinder Dudrah is Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies and Head of the Department of Drama, University of Manchester.

'This excellent collection reenergizes the study of world cinemas with its rigorous commitment to rethinking established theoretical concerns and ideas. This book is an indispensable reference for anyone interested in what the state of film theory is today.' - Professor Tim Bergfelder, University of Southampton; 'Theorizing World Cinema develops a polycentric approach to Film Studies that is truly groundbreaking.' - Professor Mette Hjort, Lingnan University, Hong Kong; 'The editors have brought together an impressive list of scholars, whose contributions offer compelling perspectives on film theory today, as it faces the challenges of a post-medium cinema and increasingly focuses on the experience of embodied and situated spectators.' - Professor Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam

• List of Illustrations (to be provided)Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Part I: The National Project 1.John Caughie‘Morvern Callar, Art Cinema and the ‘Monstrous Archive’”2.Ismail Xavier ‘On Film and Cathedrals: Monumental Art, National Allegories and Cultural Warfare’3.Ashish Rajadhyaksha ‘A Theory of Cinema that Can Account for Indian Cinema’Part II: The Transnational Project4.Paul Julian Smith ‘Transnational Cinemas: The Cases of Mexico, Argentina and Brazil’5.Chris Perriam‘Eduardo Noriega’s Transnational Projections’ 6.Felicia Chan‘From world cinema to World Cinema: Wong Kar-wai’s Ashes of Time and Ashes of Time Redux’Part III: The Diasporic Project7.Rajinder Dudrah ‘Beyond World Cinema? The Dialectics of Diasporic Cinema’8.Song Hwee Lim ‘Speaking in Tongues: Ang Lee, Accented Cinema, Hollywood’Part 4: The Realist Project 9.Geoffrey Nowell-Smith ‘From Realism to Neorealism’10.Lúcia Nagib ‘Oshima, Corporeal Realism and the Eroticized Apparatus’11.Tiago de Luca‘Realism of the Senses: A Tendency in World Cinema’12.Laura Mulvey‘Rear Projection and the Paradoxes of Hollywood Realism’Index