This edited collection explores how contemporary western European film can reflect on and contribute to discourses of conflict and survival in the new century.

The first volume to challenge the dismissal of Mexican filmmaking from the 1960s to 1980s, an era long considered a low-budget departure from the artistic quality and international acclaim of the nation's earlier Golden Age. This collection examines the critical implications of discovering, uncovering, and recovering forgotten or ignored films.

An incisive analysis of contemporary crime film in Brazil, this book focuses on how movies in this genre represent masculinity and how their messages connect to twenty-first-century sociopolitical issues. Jeremy Lehnen argues that these films promote an agenda in support of the nation's recent swing toward authoritarianism.

The first volume to challenge the dismissal of Mexican filmmaking from the 1960s to 1980s, an era long considered a low-budget departure from the artistic quality and international acclaim of the nation's earlier Golden Age. This collection examines the critical implications of discovering, uncovering, and recovering forgotten or ignored films.

This book provides a sustained engagement with contemporary Indian feature films from outside the mainstream, including Aaranaya Kaandam, I.D., Kaul, Chauthi Koot, Cosmic Sex, and Gaali Beeja, to undercut the dominance of Bollywood focused film studies.

A call to arms from Empire magazine's 'geek queen', Helen O'Hara, that explores women's roles - both in front of and behind the camera - since the birth of Hollywood, how those roles are reflected within wider society and what we can do to level the playing field.