Global Screen Worlds

Lindiwe Dovey is Professor of Film and Screen Studies at SOAS University of London, UK. From 2019 to 2024, she is the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project "African Screen Worlds: Decolonising Film and Screen Studies" (www.screenworlds.org).Kate Taylor-Jones is Professor of East Asian Cinema and Head of the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her publications include the monograph, Divine Work: Japanese Colonial Cinema and its Legacy (Bloomsbury, 2017) and co-edited works Prostitution and Sex Work in Global Cinema: New Takes on Fallen Women (2017) and International Cinema and the Girl (2015). She is editor-in-chief of The East Asian Journal of Popular Culture.Georgia Thomas-Parr is a lecturer in film and screen studies at the School of Arts, SOAS, UK. The underlying interest of her research lies in the subjects of girlhood, coming-of-age, and femininity as represented in visual culture (film and media), shaped by gender and feminist critique.

Global Screen Worlds is an innovative and ambitious book, covering a vast territory of Asian and African Cinema; and the first of its kind. The authors interrogate various issues related to Cinema, such as Colonialism, Globalization, Internationalization and Indigeneity. While there have been books published on International Cinema in the past, none have the boldness of scope and innovativeness of analytical energy that characterizes the Global Screen, and the authors of the book rightly shift focus of attention from the word Cinema to Screen World.

• AcknowledgementsContributorsIntroductionLindiwe Dovey (SOAS University of London, UK), Kate Taylor-Jones (University of Sheffield , UK) and Georgia Thomas-Parr (University College London, UK)Section I: Opening Spaces1. Dreaming in Tsotsil: Attuning Film to Community and Territory María Sojob (Filmmaker, Mexico) & Charlotte Gleghorn (University of Edinburgh, UK)Section II: Across Gulfs and Oceans: A New Lens on Cross-Cultural Industry and Industries2. Urban Imaginaries Between Dubai and Kochi: From Cinematic to Smart Cities Pooja Thomas (MICA, Ahmedabad, India) and Kay Dickinson (University of Glasgow, UK)3. Parallel Tracks: Documenting the TAZARA in the Age of the Belt and Road InitiativeXiaoningLu (SOAS University of London, UK)4. China—Sino-South African Film Industry Connections: A Preliminary ReviewMariagiulia Grassilli (University of Sussex , UK) and Luke Robinson (University of Sussex, UK)Section III: Engendering Comparative Film Studies5. World Socialist Women’s Cinema of Armed Struggle Masha Salazkina (Concordia University, Canada)6. Nation, Gender and Political Consciousness: Souleymane Cissé’s Baara and Satyajit Ray’s Ghare BaireSarahJilani (City, University of London, UK)7. Lights, Camera, Action! Nollywood Female Filmmakers as Nego-Feminists Morountodun Joseph (Bournemouth University, UK)Section IV: Of Rifts and Resonance: Reimagining Film Studies through Conversation8. Comparative Noir Urbanisms in Mumbai and Lagos Akshaya Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India) and Jonathan Haynes (Long Island University, USA)9. The City as a Site of Contention: Contemporary Japanese and Pakistani Cinemas in ConversationIrene González-López (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK) and Zebunnisa Hamid (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)10. The Possibility of an “Us”: Yasujiro Ozu’s Legacy in Alain Gomis’ Cinema Estrella Sendra (King’s College London, UK) and Laurence Green (University of the Arts London, UK)11. Feeling Absence in the Screen Worlds of Wong Kar-Wai and Mahamat- Saleh HarounXi W. Liu (University of Sheffield, UK)Section V: Cross-Cultural Fun and Fandom across Africa and Asia12. K-Drama Audiences in Madagascar and Northeast IndiaZoly Rakotoniera (University of Antananarivo, Madagascar) and Saya Thongbam (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India)13. “Bollywood be like…”: Imagined Worlds and Cross-cultural Fandom of Hindi Media by Zee World fans in NigeriaGloria Chimeziem Ernest-Samuel (Imo State University, Nigeria), Fadekemi Olawoye (Goethe University, Germany) and Georgia Thomas-Parr (University College London, UK)Index