World Directors and Their Films: Essays on African, Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern Cinema Book

INTRODUCTION Part I. Japanese Authors
“A Passage to Tokyo: The Art of Ozu, Remembered”
“Given Circumstances: The East Asian Cinema of Akira Kurosawa”
“Lost in Transition: Yoji Yamada’s The Twilight Samurai”
“Without a Prayer: Vengeance Is Mine and the Cinema of Shohei Imamura”
“Life and Nothing But: On Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Maborosi and Nobody Knows”
“Reality Bites: Jun Ichikawa’s Tony Takitani”
Part II. Other Asian Auteurs
“Ethics and Aesthetics, Eastern or Western: The Directing Career of Satyajit Ray”
“Same Time, Different Children: Mrinal Sen’s The Case Is Closed and Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay!”
“Love without Pity, Passion with Pathos: Two Films by Zhang Yimou”
“The Uses of History: On Chen Kaige’s Farewell, My Concubine”
“South Korea and the Cinema: The Cases of Kim Ki-duk and Hong Sang-Soo”
“The Space of Time, the Sound of Silence: Tsai Ming-liang’s What Time Is It There?”
Part III. Iranian and Middle-Eastern Innovators
“Blood and Cherries, Wind and Dust: Abbas Kiarostami and the Cinema of Iran”
“Angels beyond America: Majid Majidi’s The Children of Heaven and The Color of Paradise”
“Women and Children First: The Cinema of Jafar Panahi”
“An Afghan Is a Woman: Siddiq Barmak’s 'sama and Other Afghan-Iranian Films”
“Mirror Images, or Children of Crisis: Samira Makhmalbaf’s The Apple and Bahman Ghobadi’s Turtles Can Fly”
“Of Human Bondage and Male Indulgence: Amos Gitai’s Kadosh, Savi Gabizon’s Nina’s Tragedies, and Ziad Doueiri’s West Beirut”
Part IV. African Art
“Women and Fathers, or 'smane Sembène’s Moolaadé and Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Abouna”
“Rite of Passage, Law of the Jungle: Idrissa Ouédraogo’s Yaaba and Tilaï”
“Africa through European Eyes: Clair Denis’s Chocolat and Frieder Schlaich’s Otomo”
Part V. Latin American Art(ist)s
“The Prison-House of Sexuality: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s Strawberry and Chocolate, Hector Babenco’s Carandiru, and Carlos Reygadas’s Battle in Heaven”
“All about My, Your, Their Mother: María Novaro’s Danzón and Andrucha Waddington’s Me, You, Them in Light of the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar”
“Latino Art through European Eyes, or against the American Evil Eye: Barbet Schroeder’s Our Lady of the Assassins and Miguel Littin’s Alsino and the Condor”
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