Genre, Gender, Race and World Cinema

<i>Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema</i> is an innovative anthology that introduces the study of film theory using the four topics of genre, gender, race, and world cinema, to encourage critical discussion. <br /> <ul> <li>A major anthology geared towards course use, which covers key concepts in film studies through analysis of important films from American, Asian, European and African cinema</li> <li>Combines formal, historical, cultural, and theoretical approaches to study</li> <li>Analyzes how film represents and influences individual and societal constructs of identity</li> <li>Uses selected readings to introduce inter-textual relations between the readings and the films they discuss</li> <li>Contains section introductions that map the themes and histories of each topic, and raise theoretical issues specific to each</li> </ul>