Cinema at the Periphery

From Iceland to Iran, from Singapore to Scotland, a growing intellectual and cultural wave of production is taking cinema beyond the borders of its place of origin--exploring faraway places, interacting with barely known peoples, and making new localities imaginable. In these films, previously entrenched spatial divisions no longer function as firmly fixed grid coordinates, the hierarchical position of place as "center" is subverted, and new forms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814333885
• ISBN13: 9780814333884
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"