CONTENTS

CONTENT

1. ACTUALTY AND ILLUSION The first filmmakers: Muybridge, The Lumières, Méliès and Phalke, 1985 to 1918

2. REALISM Nanook of the North Robert J. Flaherty, North America, 1922

3. PERSPECTIVE Rashomon Akira Kurosawa, Japan 1950

4. NEO-REALISM Pather Panchali Satyajit Ray, India 1955

5. CULTURAL APPROPRIATION Black Orpheus Marcel Camus, Brazil 1959

6. COLONIALISM Black Girl Ousmane Sembene, Senegal 1966

7. REVOLUTION Battle of Algiers Gillo Pontecorvo, Algeria 1966

8. THE MUSLIM WORLD The Wind Will Carry Us Abbas Kiarostami, Iran 1999

9. POLITICS ARE PERSONAL In the Mood for Love Wong Kar-wai, China 2000

10. DIASPORA Head On Fathi Akin, Turkey and Germany 2004

11. REVENGE AND REDEMPTION The Host Bong Joon-ho, Korea 2006

12. INDIGENOUS PEOPLE Boy Taika Waititi, New Zealand 2010

13. WOMEN & ISLAM Wadjda, Haifaa Al Mansour, Saudi Arabia 2012

14. METAPHOR Half a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria 2013