Storytelling in World Cinemas: Forms

by Khatib, Lina

• ISBN13: 9780231162050
• ISBN10: 0231162057
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-29
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

Storytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 1: Forms is an innovative collection of essays that discuss how different cinemas of the world tell stories. The book locates European, Asian, African, and Latin American films within their wider cultural and artistic frameworsk, showing how storytelling forms in cinema are infused with influences from other artistic, literary, and oral traditions. This volume also reconsiders cinematic storytelling in general, highlighting the hybridity of 'national' forms of storytelling, calling for a rethinking of African cinematic storytelling that goes beyond oral traditions, and addressing films characterised by 'non-narration'. This study is the first in a two-volume project, with the second focusing on the contexts of cinematic storytelling.

Author Biography

Lina Khatib leads the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. She is the author of Filming the Modern Middle East: Politics in the Cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab World (2006) and Lebanese Cinema: Imagining the Civil War and Beyond (2008).

Table of Contents

Noted on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction to Volume One	p. 1
'National' Forms of Storytelling
Aristotle Did Not Make It to India: Narrative Modes in Hindi Cinema	p. 11
Tootsie Meets Yesilçam: Narration in Popular Turkish Cinema	p. 25
Jewish Humour and the Cabaret Tradition in Interwar Hungarian Entertainment Films	p. 34
Storytelling and Literary and Oral Forms
Third Person Interrupted: Form, Adaptation and Narration in Tony Takitani	p. 51
The Labyrinth of Halfaouine: Storytelling and the 1001 Nights	p. 61
'Leaping broken narration': Ballads, Oral Storytelling and the Cinema	p. 71
Rethinking Storytelling Forms in African Cinemas
Storytelling in Contemporary African Fiction Film and Video	p. 89
That's Entertainment?: Art, Didacticism and the Popular in Francophone West African Cinema	p. 104
Intriguing African Storytelling: On Aristotle's Plot by Jean-Pierre Bekolo	p. 115
Storytelling and Visual Forms
Pirosmani's Passion: Narration and the Aesthetics of PirosmanashviliÆs Paintings in Georgian Film	p. 135
When the Story Hides the Story: The Narrative Structure of Milcho Manchevski's Dust	p. 150
Refusing to Conform: Forms of Non-narration
Primitive Gazing: Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Sensational Inaction Cinema	p. 165
Ghosts in the National Machine: The Haunting (and Taunting) Films of Tracey Moffatt	p. 177
The Reluctance to Narrate: Elia Suleiman's Chronicle of a Disappearance and Divine Intervention	p. 192
Index	p. 205
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