Global Screen Worlds

Conversations across Cinema Cultures

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Edited by Lindiwe Dovey, Kate Taylor-Jones and Georgia Thomas-Parr

Type

Essays

Subject

Countries > World

Keywords

national cultures, global, Africa, Asia

Publishing date

2026 (February 05, 2026)

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 368 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ¼ inches (16 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

979-8-7651-2628-8

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Book Presentation:
Global Screen Worlds brings together scholars from around the world to collaborate on comparative studies of specific African and Asian cinemas and audiovisual narrative media.

This open access collection advances the concept of “screen worlds” rather than “world cinema” to acknowledge and reckon with the impact of new technologies on cinema and everyday life, and the contributors adopt a decolonial feminist approach that insists on localized, intersectional analyses that take race, gender, and class into account in their critique of historical and contemporary abuses of power. Many chapters are set against major world-historical events-such as the Cold War and the Bandung era-and grapple with the relationships among films, filmmaking practices, and social, historical, and cultural experiences.

In the chapters, contributors variously explore, for example, filmmaking relationships between countries as diverse as the UAE and India, China and South Africa; K-pop fandom among audiences in Madagascar and North-east India, and Bollywood fandom in southern Nigeria; the use of parallel filmmaking genres and themes in Lagos and Mumbai, Tokyo and Lahore; and comparative analysis of the films of well-known African and Asian filmmakers such as Yasujiro Ozu and Alain Gomis, Satyajit Ray and Souleymane Cissé, and Wong Kar-wai and Mahamat Saleh Haroun.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The European Research Council.

About the authors:
Lindiwe Dovey is Professor of Film and Screen Studies at SOAS University of London, UK. From 2019 to 2024, she is the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project?"African Screen Worlds: Decolonising Film and Screen Studies" (www.screenworlds.org).Kate Taylor-Jones is Professor of East Asian Cinema and Head of the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her publications include the monograph, Divine Work: Japanese Colonial Cinema and its Legacy (Bloomsbury, 2017) and co-edited works Prostitution and Sex Work in Global Cinema: New Takes on Fallen Women (2017) and International Cinema and the Girl (2015). She is editor-in-chief of The East Asian Journal of Popular Culture.Georgia Thomas-Parr is a lecturer in film and screen studies at the School of Arts, SOAS, UK. The underlying interest of her research lies in the subjects of girlhood, coming-of-age, and femininity as represented in visual culture (film and media), shaped by gender and feminist critique.

Press Reviews:
"Global Screen Worlds is an innovative and ambitious book, covering a vast territory of Asian and African Cinema; and the first of its kind. The authors interrogate various issues related to Cinema, such as Colonialism, Globalization, Internationalization and Indigeneity. While there have been books published on International Cinema in the past, none have the boldness of scope and innovativeness of analytical energy that characterizes the Global Screen, and the authors of the book rightly shift focus of attention from the word Cinema to Screen World." ―Wimal Dissanayake, Professor of Asian Cinema, University of Hawai'i, USA

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