Bibliography
Ashbury, Roy, ed. Teaching African Cinema. London: British Film Institute, 1998
This very comprehensive manual offers a history of Africa and African cinema, an analysis of African culture and how it pertains to film, and case studies of particular films.
Andrew, Dudley. "The Theatre of Irish Cinema." Yale Journal of Criticism,
Vol. 15, number 1: 23-58, 2002.
In this article Andrew analyzes Irish film using terminology and concepts that can be related to films from other countries and regions such as fluid binarism and demi-emigration.
Andrew, Dudley. "Stories Around the World in Film." A seminar offered as a part of the
Yale National Initiative, July 2006.
Much of this unit has been informed by discussions that took place during this two week seminar. Andrew's insightful commentary on many aspects of international cinema has been paraphrased throughout.
Berry, Chris, ed. Perspectives on Chinese Cinema. London: BFI Publishing, 1991.
Although a bit outdated, this collection of essays was valuable to the writing of this unit. Berry's introduction, an essay on landscape in Chinese cinema, and the essay on the connections between poetry, painting, and film were used.
Berry, Michael. Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
An extensive interview with Zhang Yimou, the director of Not One Less, is contained in this collection. Students and teachers will gain insight into a long career through this interview.
Burke, Mary. June 1999. Queen's University of Belfast, School of English.
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofEnglish/imperial/ireland/travellers.htm
A more thorough look at the Irish travelers/tinkers is offered at this site, last updated in 1999. It details the history of the travelers, the political situation of the travelers, as well as their changing status in Ireland and a projection of the group's future.
Chow, Rey. "Not One Less: the Fable of a Migration." In Chinese Films in Focus: 25
New Takes, ed. Chris Berry, pp. 144-151. London: British Film Institute, 2003.
Chow uses the term mediatised image in her discussion of Not One Less. She analyzes the film in the context of two stories: the human struggle and the importance of money and television and the emergence of a mediatised image.
Corrigan, Timothy & Patricia White. The Film Experience, an Introduction. Boston:
Bedford/St. Martins, 2004.
This excellent film textbook should be included in classroom libraries. Although it was written for undergraduate survey courses, middle school children and teachers can use it as a reference.
Diawara, Manthia. African Cinema, Politics and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1992.
Friedman, Thomas L. The World is Flat. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giourx, 2006.
Reference is made to Friedman's theme in this unit. This book can inform any classroom teacher working in the United States today.
Goldsmith, Ben. "All Quiet on the Western Front? Suburban Reverberations in Recent
Australian Cinema." In Australian Cinema in the 1990's. Ian Craven, ed. London:
Frank Cass Publishers, 2001. p. 115-132.
Irish Cultural Society. http://www.irish-society.org/index.html
This site offers a simple explanation of the Irish travelers or tinkers that would be easily understood by middle school children.
McLoone, Martin. Irish Film: The Emergence of a Contemporary Cinema. London:
British Film Institue, 2000.
Chapters in this book titled "Nationalism, Popular Culture and the Cinema in Ireland" and "Cultural Identity: The American Friend and the European Neighbour" can inform the reader about Ireland's relationship to other western cinema. Dudley Andrew refers to and modifies McLoone's categories of Irish Cinema in his article "The Theatre of Irish Cinema."
Pfaff, Francoise, ed. Focus on African Films. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
2004.
This is a collection of essays relating to African film and emphasizes the broad range of themes, styles, and socioeconomic conditions that are present in the category of African cinema..
Pfaff, Francoise. Twenty-five Black African Filmmakers. New York: Greenwood Press,
1988.
Each chapter of this book is devoted to a different African filmmaker. The treatment of each filmmaker is broken down into sections called biography, major themes, survey of criticism, and filmography. It is a reference book and no original theories are put forth.
Rayner, Jonathan. Contemporary Australian Cinema: An Introduction. Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 2000.
Sadr, Hamid Reza. "Children in Contemporary Iranian Cinema: When We Were
Children." In The New Iranian Cinema, ed. Richard Tapper, pp. 227-237. London:
I.B. Tauris, 2002.
Providing an excellent overview of the use of children in the films of Kiarostami, Panahi, and Majidi, this article is extremely valuable in helping the reader understand this phenomenon of Iranian contemporary film.
Scott, A.O. "What is a Foreign Movie Now?" In New York Times Sunday Magazine.
November 14, 2004.
Tam, Kwok-kan and Wimal Dissanayake. New Chinese Cinema. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1998.
Focusing on the work of six directors — Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou and Tian Zhuangzhuang; Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang; and Hong Kong's Stanley Kwan, this book provides insights for the teacher interesting in the three nations that are part of Chinese cinema.
Tapper, Richard, ed. The New Iranian Cinema: Politics, Representation and Identity.
London: I.B. Tauris, 2002.
Tapper's book contains Sadr's essay mentioned above and another one titled "Location and Cultural Identity in Iranian Films" by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, that was used in the writing of this unit.
Yi-Yu Cho Woo, Catherine. "The Chinese Montage: From Poetry and Painting to the
Silver Screen," pp. 6-20, In Perspectives on Chinese Cinema, ed. Chris Berry.
London: BFI Publishing, 1991.
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