World Cinema through Global Genres - Costanzo, William V.
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World Cinema through Global Genres introduces the complex forces of global filmmaking using the popular concept of film genre. The cluster-based organization allows students to acquire a clear understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world.
Innovative pedagogical approach that uses genres to teach the more unfamiliar subject of world cinema A cluster-based organization provides a solid framework for students to acquire a sharper understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world A "deep focus" section in each chapter gives students information and…mehr

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World Cinema through Global Genres introduces the complex forces of global filmmaking using the popular concept of film genre. The cluster-based organization allows students to acquire a clear understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world.

Innovative pedagogical approach that uses genres to teach the more unfamiliar subject of world cinema
A cluster-based organization provides a solid framework for students to acquire a sharper understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world
A "deep focus" section in each chapter gives students information and insights about important regions of filmmaking (India, China, Japan, and Latin America) that tend to be underrepresented in world cinema classes
Case studies allow students to focus on important and accessible individual films that exemplify significant traditions and trends
A strong foundation chapter reviews key concepts and vocabulary for understanding film as an art form, a technology, a business, an index of culture, a social barometer, and a political force.
The engaging style and organization of the book make it a compelling text for both world cinema and film genre courses
Autorenporträt
William V. Costanzo is professor of English and film at Westchester Community College, New York, where he has taught courses in writing, literature, and cinema for more than thirty years. His publications include Double Exposure: Composing through Writing and Film (1984), The Electronic Text: Learning to Write, Read, and Reason with Computers (1989), Reading the Movies: Twelve Great Films on Video and How to Teach Them (1992), and more than fifty articles and reviews. Since receiving his PhD from Columbia University, he has received state and national awards for teaching and scholarship and for designing educational software. Costanzo lectures widely on film and the educational uses of technology and has led workshops on media and English across the country. Within NCTE he has served as director of the Commission on Media, chair of the Committee on Film Study in the English Language Arts, and chair of the Assembly on Media Arts. Future projects include a textbook for first-year college composition, The Writer's Eye, and a book on global cinema.
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"A wonderful textbook as well as a scholarly tour-de-force. Costanzo brings new meaning to the concept of global genres and offers up examples that convincingly demonstrate cinematic border crossings and cultural connections amongst far-flung places."
--David Desser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

"Costanzo revitalizes both world cinema and genre studies with his stimulating, insightful cross cultural approach to warrior heroes, wedding films, horror and road movies. It's a well-written, scholarly work that's as inventive as it is enjoyable."
--Diane Carson, Past President, University Film and Video Assn (UFVA)

"William Costanzo has cut the clearest path yet through the forest of World Cinema. Key genres take us confidently place to place, era to era; while maps, timelines, and surveys of national industries position a rich array of films, many analyzed with real mastery."
--Dudley Andrew, Professor of Film and Comparative Literature, Yale University, USA