Lucia Nagib is Centenary Professor of World Cinema and Director of the Centre for World Cinemas, University of Leeds. She is Series Editor of Tauris' 'World Cinema Series'. Chris Perriam is Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Manchester. Rajinder Dudrah is Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies and Head of the Department of Drama, University of Manchester.

List of Illustrations (to be provided)
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: The National Project
1. John Caughie
'Morvern Callar, Art Cinema and the 'Monstrous Archive'"
2. Ismail Xavier
'On Film and Cathedrals: Monumental Art, National Allegories and Cultural Warfare'
3. Ashish Rajadhyaksha
'A Theory of Cinema that Can Account for Indian Cinema'
Part II: The Transnational Project
4. Paul Julian Smith
'Transnational Cinemas: The Cases of Mexico, Argentina and Brazil'
5. Chris Perriam
'Eduardo Noriega's Transnational Projections'
6. Felicia Chan
'From world cinema to World Cinema: Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time and Ashes of Time Redux'
Part III: The Diasporic Project
7. Rajinder Dudrah
'Beyond World Cinema? The Dialectics of Diasporic Cinema'
8. Song Hwee Lim
'Speaking in Tongues: Ang Lee, Accented Cinema, Hollywood'
Part 4: The Realist Project
9. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
'From Realism to Neorealism'
10. Lúcia Nagib
'Oshima, Corporeal Realism and the Eroticized Apparatus'
11. Tiago de Luca
'Realism of the Senses: A Tendency in World Cinema'
12. Laura Mulvey
'Rear Projection and the Paradoxes of Hollywood Realism'
Index