First published in 1970, Gene Youngblood
Manthia Diawara's study on African cinema has been long awaited. Indeed, few areas as important as African cinema have been so largely neglected by the critical community. We do have Franloise Pfaf…
The first comprehensive history of film in China from the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949 to the mid-1980s when a "new wave" broke. Clark argues that Chinese cinema has not been prim…
Lang contends that the true melodrama is essentially an Oedipal drama--a dramatization of the ways in which we are all formed within a matrix of familial imperatives. As he interprets them, these i…
Editor Otten has delivered an important book in the field of anthropology. Where most book on "primitive art" are primarily concerned with aesthetics, Otten's book is a collection of essays by anth…