Locating World Cinema argues for the importance of understanding the context of a film's creation and the nuances that it conveys to the spectator. The book examines the socio-cultural contexts intrinsic to cinema from milieus like the USSR/Russia, China, Japan, France, the US, Iran and India. It analyses the works of some of the more celebrated but, at times, less fully understood auteurs like Kenji Mizoguchi from Japan, Robert Bresson,...