Storytelling in World Cinemas

Notes on Contributors
Introduction to Volume One, by Lina Khatib
'National' Forms of Storytelling
Aristotle Did Not Make It to India: Narrative Modes in Hindi Cinema, by Claus Tieber
Tootsie Meets Yesilçam: Narration in Popular Turkish Cinema, by Savas Arslan
Jewish Humour and the Cabaret Tradition in Interwar Hungarian Entertainment Films, by Anna Manchin
Storytelling and Literary and Oral Forms
Third Person Interrupted: Form, Adaptation and Narration in Tony Takitani, by Chris Wood
The Labyrinth of Halfaouine: Storytelling and the 1001 Nights, by Stefanie Van de Peer
'Leaping broken narration': Ballads, Oral Storytelling and the Cinema, by Adam Ganz
Rethinking Storytelling Forms in African Cinemas
Storytelling in Contemporary African Fiction Film and Video, by Lindiwe Dovey
That's Entertainment? Art, Didacticism and the Popular in Francophone West African Cinema, by David Murphy
Intriguing African Storytelling: On Aristotle's Plot by Jean-Pierre Bekolo, by Matthias De Groof
Storytelling and Visual Forms
Pirosmani's Passion: Narration and the Aesthetics of Pirosmanashvili's Paintings in Georgian Film, by Gesine Drews-Sylla
When the Story Hides the Story: The Narrative Structure of Milcho Manchevski's Dust, by Erik Tängerstad
Refusing to Conform: Forms of Non-narration
Primitive Gazing: Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Sensational Inaction Cinema, by Matthew P. Ferrari
Ghosts in the National Machine: The Haunting (and Taunting) Films of Tracey Moffatt, by Jennifer L. Gauthier
The Reluctance to Narrate: Elia Suleiman's Chronicle of a Disappearance and Divine Intervention, by Linda Mokdad
Index