Table of Contents

Introduction Rethinking Third Cinema. Anthony R. Guneratne Third Cinema Theory and Beyond Beyond Third Cinema: The Aesthetics of Hybridity Robert Stam Challenging Third World Legacies: Issues of Gender, Culture and Representation Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures Ella Shohat The Erotics of History: Gender and Transgression in the New Asian Cinemas Sumita Chakravarty Alternative Cinemas in the Age of Globalization Authorship, Globalization and the New Identity Politics of Latin American Cinema: From the Mexican 'Ranchera' to Argentinian 'Exile' Marvin D'lugo Video Booms and the Manifestations of 'First' Cinema in Anglophone Africa N. Frank Ukadike The Relocation of Culture: Social Specificity and the Third Question What's 'Oppositional' in Indonesian Cinema? Krishna Sen The Seductions of Homecoming: Place, Authenticity, and Chen Kaige's 'Temptress Moon' Rey Chow Receiving/Retrieving Third (World) Cinema: Alternative Approaches to Spectator Studies and Critical History Theorizing 'Third World' Spectatorship - The Case of Iran and Iranian Cinema Hamid Naficy Rethinking Indian Popular Cinema: Towards Newer Frames of Understanding Wimal Dissanayake

About the Author

Anthony Guneratne teaches film, media and visual culture at Florida Atlantic University and is presently a visiting scholar in Harvard University's Department of English. He has written on the literature and films of postcoloniality and on various topics in Indian and Singaporean cinema. His book, Cinehistory: The Representation of Reality in Documentaryand Narrative Cinema is due to be oublished shortly.