Abstract:Traditions in World Cinema is a series of textbooks and monographs devoted to the analysis of currently popular and previously underexamined or undervalued fi lm movements from around the globe.Also i...Traditions in World Cinema is a series of textbooks and monographs devoted to the analysis of currently popular and previously underexamined or undervalued fi lm movements from around the globe.Also intended for general interest readers, the textbooks in this series offer undergraduate-and graduate-level fi lm students accessible and comprehensive introductions to diverse traditions in world cinema.The monographs open up for advanced academic study more specialised groups of fi lms, including those that require theoretically-oriented approaches.Both textbooks and monographs provide thorough examinations of the industrial, cultural, and socio-historical conditions of production and reception.The fl agship textbook for the series includes chapters by noted scholars on traditions of acknowledged importance (the French New Wave, German Expressionism), recent and emergent traditions (New Iranian, post-Cinema Novo), and those whose rightful claim to recognition has yet to be established (the Israeli persecution fi lm, global found footage cinema).Other volumes concentrate on individual national, regional or global cinema traditions.As the introductory chapter to each volume makes clear, the fi lms under discussion form a coherent group on the basis of substantive and relatively transparent, if not always obvious, commonalities.These commonalities may be formal, stylistic or thematic, and the groupings may, although they need not, be popularlyRead More