... the definition and circulation of art cinema in the United States and defining contemporary women’s cinema in multicultural terms. Indian diasporan cinema Iranian diasporan artists art house theaters middle-brow culture ...

... Art cinema slow cinema temporality anachronism ...

... art cinema auteur theory Cannes Film Festival New Argentine Cinema Iranian New Cinema ...

... performativity passing historiography art cinema independent film ...

... and boredom, asynchrony and reproduction. It studies a wide range of international art cinema and considers slow cinema and radical activist work. It addresses the aesthetics of bootlegging, YouTube and excisions from censorship, and their significance for international queer film style. By insisting...

... martial arts cinema Ashes of Time Jin Yong a.k.a. Louis Cha The Grandmaster Morricone ...

... and that allegory is a central modality of its narration. It finds allegory at work across geographically disparate sites of narrative cinema, from art cinema classics to crucial postcolonial texts, and including African, Southeast Asian, and Japanese cinemas. It reads allegory in contestations of tradition...

... Chapter 4 turns to martial arts cinema and argues that Ashes of Time (1994) is a work of fan fiction. An avid consumer of Jin Yong’s novels, Wong Kar-wai has modeled his career after that of the famed writer-cum-entrepreneur. The original score of Ashes of Time furthers Wong’s ambition...

... that the women who have risen to the top ranks of auteurs have negotiated discourses of female exceptionality both in their personae and in their films, which engage questions of national identity and historical accountability through the situation of their female protagonists. art cinema auteur theory...

... Alex Katz Abstract Expressionism Pop art photography cinema ...