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Storytelling in World Cinemas: Forms

By Lina Khatib

Book information

Publisher
Wallflower Press
Year
2012
ISBN
0231162057, 9780231162050
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3585428 bytes)
Pages
240\225
Time added
2014-09-23 13:12:01

Description

Storytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 1: Forms is an innovative collection of essays that discuss how different cinemas of the world tell stories. The book locates European, Asian, African, and Latin American films within their wider cultural and artistic frameworks, showing how storytelling forms in cinema are infused with influences from other artistic, literary, and oral traditions. This volume also reconsiders cinematic storytelling in general, highlighting the hybridity of 'national' forms of storytelling, calling for a rethinking of African cinematic storytelling that goes beyond oral traditions, and addressing films characterised by 'non-narration'. This study is the first in a two-volume project, with the second focusing on the contexts of cinematic storytelling.

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