World Directors and their Films/ essays on African, Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern cinema Cardullo, Bert

INTRODUCTIONPart I. Japanese Authors"A Passage to Tokyo: The Art of Ozu, Remembered""Given Circumstances: The East Asian Cinema of Akira Kurosawa""Lost in Transition: Yoji Yamada's The Twilight Samurai""Without a Prayer: Vengeance Is Mine and the Cinema of Shohei Imamura""Life and Nothing But: On Hirokazu Kore-eda's Maborosi and Nobody Knows""Reality Bites: Jun Ichikawa's Tony Takitani"Part II. Other Asian Auteurs"Ethics and Aesthetics, Eastern or Western: The Directing Career of Satyajit Ray""Same Time, Different Children: Mrinal Sen's The Case Is Closed and Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay!""Love without Pity, Passion with Pathos: Two Films by Zhang Yimou""The Uses of History: On Chen Kaige's Farewell, My Concubine""South Korea and the Cinema: The Cases of Kim Ki-duk and Hong Sang-Soo""The Space of Time, the Sound of Silence: Tsai Ming-liang's What Time Is It There?"Part III. Iranian and Middle-Eastern Innovators"Blood and Cherries, Wind and Dust: Abbas Kiarostami and the Cinema of Iran""Angels beyond America: Majid Majidi's The Children of Heaven and The Color of Paradise""Women and Children First: The Cinema of Jafar Panahi""An Afghan Is a Woman: Siddiq Barmak's Osama and Other Afghan-Iranian Films""Mirror Images, or Children of Crisis: Samira Makhmalbaf's The Apple and Bahman Ghobadi's Turtles Can Fly""Of Human Bondage and Male Indulgence: Amos Gitai's Kadosh, Savi Gabizon's Nina's Tragedies, and Ziad Doueiri's West Beirut"Part IV. African Art"Women and Fathers, or Osmane Sembene's Moolaade and Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Abouna""Rite of Passage, Law of the Jungle: Idrissa Ouedraogo's Yaaba and Tilai""Africa through European Eyes: Clair Denis's Chocolat and Frieder Schlaich's Otomo"Part V. Latin American Art(ist)s"The Prison-House of Sexuality: Tomas Gutierrez Alea's Strawberry and Chocolate, Hector Babenco's Carandiru, and Carlos Reygadas's Battle in Heaven""All about My, Your, Their Mother: Maria Novaro's Danzon and Andrucha Waddington's Me, You, Them in Light of the Cinema of Pedro Almodovar""Latino Art through European Eyes, or against the American Evil Eye: Barbet Schroeder's Our Lady of the Assassins and Miguel Littin's Alsino and the Condor"FILMOGRAPHIESBIBLIOGRAPHIESINDEX