Global Screen Worlds by Dovey, Lindiwe; Taylor-Jones, Kate; Thomas-Parr, Georgia;

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A detailed, nuanced, comparative analysis of African and Asian cinemas, expanding the cinema studies canon and decolonizing the methodologies through which we study global cinema.

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Global Screen Worlds brings together scholars from around the world to collaborate on comparative studies of specific African and Asian cinemas and audiovisual narrative media.

This open access collection advances the concept of ""screen worlds"" rather than ""world cinema"" to acknowledge and reckon with the impact of new technologies on cinema and everyday life, and the contributors adopt a decolonial feminist approach that insists on localized, intersectional analyses that take race, gender, and class into account in their critique of historical and contemporary abuses of power. Many chapters are set against major world-historical events-such as the Cold War and the Bandung era-and grapple with the relationships among films, filmmaking practices, and social, historical, and cultural experiences.

In the chapters, contributors variously explore, for example, filmmaking relationships between countries as diverse as the UAE and India, China and South Africa; K-pop fandom among audiences in Madagascar and North-east India, and Bollywood fandom in southern Nigeria; the use of parallel filmmaking genres and themes in Lagos and Mumbai, Tokyo and Lahore; and comparative analysis of the films of well-known African and Asian filmmakers such as Yasujiro Ozu and Alain Gomis, Satyajit Ray and Souleymane Cissï¿1⁄2, and Wong Kar-wai and Mahamat Saleh Haroun.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The European Research Council.

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Acknowledgements
Contributors

Introduction
Lindiwe Dovey (SOAS University of London, UK), Kate Taylor-Jones (University of Sheffield , UK) and Georgia Thomas-Parr (University College London, UK)


Section I: Opening Spaces
1. Dreaming in Tsotsil: Attuning Film to Community and Territory
Marï¿1⁄2a Sojob (Filmmaker, Mexico) & Charlotte Gleghorn (University of Edinburgh, UK)


Section II: Across Gulfs and Oceans: A New Lens on Cross-Cultural Industry and Industries
2. Urban Imaginaries Between Dubai and Kochi: From Cinematic to Smart Cities
Pooja Thomas (MICA, Ahmedabad, India) and Kay Dickinson (University of Glasgow, UK)

3. Parallel Tracks: Documenting the TAZARA in the Age of the Belt and Road Initiative
XiaoningLu (SOAS University of London, UK)

4. China-Sino-South African Film Industry Connections: A Preliminary Review
Mariagiulia Grassilli (University of Sussex , UK) and Luke Robinson (University of Sussex, UK)

Section III: Engendering Comparative Film Studies
5. World Socialist Women's Cinema of Armed Struggle
Masha Salazkina (Concordia University, Canada)

6. Nation, Gender and Political Consciousness: Souleymane Cissï¿1⁄2's Baara and Satyajit Ray's Ghare Baire
SarahJilani (City, University of London, UK)

7. Lights, Camera, Action! Nollywood Female Filmmakers as Nego-Feminists
Morountodun Joseph (Bournemouth University, UK)

Section IV: Of Rifts and Resonance: Reimagining Film Studies through Conversation
8. Comparative Noir Urbanisms in Mumbai and Lagos
Akshaya Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India) and Jonathan Haynes (Long Island University, USA)

9. The City as a Site of Contention: Contemporary Japanese and Pakistani Cinemas in Conversation
Irene Gonzï¿1⁄2lez-Lï¿1⁄2pez (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK) and Zebunnisa Hamid (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)

10. The Possibility of an ""Us"": Yasujiro Ozu's Legacy in Alain Gomis' Cinema
Estrella Sendra (King's College London, UK) and Laurence Green (University of the Arts London, UK)

11. Feeling Absence in the Screen Worlds of Wong Kar-Wai and Mahamat- Saleh Haroun
Xi W. Liu (University of Sheffield, UK)

Section V: Cross-Cultural Fun and Fandom across Africa and Asia
12. K-Drama Audiences in Madagascar and Northeast India
Zoly Rakotoniera (University of Antananarivo, Madagascar) and Saya Thongbam (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India)

13. ""Bollywood be like."": Imagined Worlds and Cross-cultural Fandom of Hindi Media by Zee World fans in Nigeria
Gloria Chimeziem Ernest-Samuel (Imo State University, Nigeria), Fadekemi Olawoye (Goethe University, Germany) and Georgia Thomas-Parr (University College London, UK)

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