Storytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 2: Contexts addresses the questions of what and why particular stories are told in films around the world, both in terms of the forms of storytelling used, and of the political, religious, historical, and social contexts informing cinematic storytelling. Drawing on films from all five continents, the book approaches storytelling from a cultural/historical multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on the influence of cultural politics, postcolonialism, women's social and cultural positions, and religious contexts on film stories. Like its sister volume, Storytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 1: Forms, this book is an innovative addition to the academic study of world cinemas.
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction to Volume Two, by Lina Khatib
- Storytelling and Cultural Politics
- Stories as Social Critique: The Vision of China in the Films of Jia Zhangke, by Konrad Ng
- Taonga (cultural treasures): Reflections on Maori Storytelling in the Cinema of Aotearoa/New Zealand, by Hester Joyce
- The Minjung Cultural Movement and Korean Cinema of the 1980s: The Influence of Minjung Theatre and Art in Lee Jang-ho’s Films, by Nam Lee
- On How to Tell a Revolution: Alsino y el cóndor, by Robert Dash and Patricia Varas
- Storytelling and Postcolonialism
- Telling Stories About Unknown People in Faraway Countries: U.S. Travelogues About Mexico in the 1930s and 1940s, by Isabel Arredondo
- Memory and Tradition as a Postcolonial Response in the Films of Kyrgyzstan’s Aktan Abdykalykov, by Willow Mullins
- ‘Postcolonial Beaux’ Stratagem: Singing and Dancing Back with Carmen in African Films, by Yifen T. Beus
- Telling Women’s Stories
- Heard/Symbolic Voices: The Nouba of the Women of Mont Chenoua and Women’s Film in the Maghreb, by Zahia Smail Salhi
- Women’s Stories and Public Space in Iranian New Wave Film, by Anna Dempsey
- Cinematic Images of Women at a Time of National(ist) Crisis: The Case of Three Yugoslav Films, by Dijana Jelača
- History as Science Fiction: Women of Action in Hong Kong Cinema, by Saša Vojković
- Storytelling and Religio-Cultural Encounters
- Clouds of Unknowing: Buddhism and Bhutanese Cinema, by Shohini Chaudhuri and Sue Clayton
- Claiming Space, Time and History in The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, by Darrell Varga
- Qissa and Popular Hindi Cinema, by Anjali Gera Roy
- Index
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