Screen Readers – serie

Screening World Cinema brings together a selection of the best articles on the topic of world cinema published in the esteemed Screen journal.Available in one volume for the first time, this collection allows readers to cross-reference debates and essays that have ranged across many issues of Screen. Themes addressed include:the problem of defining ‘world cinema’the relationship between ‘first’ and ‘third’ cinema and criticismissues of modernity and modernizationquestions of national and transnational cinema.With a selection of articles on key contemporary ‘world’ cinemas – New Iranian, Latin American and Chinese as well, this will be a must-read for all students of world cinema.

Screening World Cinema brings together a selection of the best articles on the topic of world cinema published in the esteemed Screen journal.Available in one volume for the first time, this collection allows readers to cross-reference debates and essays that have ranged across many issues of Screen. Themes addressed include:the problem of defining ‘world cinema’the relationship between ‘first’ and ‘third’ cinema and criticismissues of modernity and modernizationquestions of national and transnational cinema.With a selection of articles on key contemporary ‘world’ cinemas – New Iranian, Latin American and Chinese as well, this will be a must-read for all students of world cinema.

Queer Screen: A Screen Reader brings together a selection of key articles on queer cinema published over the past two decades in the internationally renowned journal, Screen, with new introductory editorial material from Jackie Stacey and Sarah Street.Queer Screen features scholarship which has contributed to the emergence of queer theory in the field of screen studies during the last fifteen years, demonstrating how writers in Screen have contributed to developments in queer theory as it relates to a wide range of popular and experimental films and videos. The book considers a wide range of case studies including popular films such as Boys Don’t Cry, Alien Resurrection, Brief Encounter, Bound, and Rope, as well as experimental films and videos by artists such as Richard Fung, Ulrike Ottinger, Sheila McLaughlin and Derek Jarman.