The Routledge Companion to World Cinema explores and examines a global range of films and filmmakers, their movements and audiences, comparing their cultural, technological and political dynamics, identifying the impulses that constantly reshape the form and function of the cinemas of the world.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2017-10-02
Language: English
Number of Pages: 542
Edition: 1
Series: Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
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