Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Film, Music & National Cinemas: Asia, Africa and Latin America
Germán Gil-Curiel, Sino-British College, Shanghai, China
Chapter 2: New Zealand Cinema, National Identity and Don McGlashan
Henry Johnson, University of Otago, New Zealand
Chapter 3: Chinese Identity and Total Art: Tan Dun's Aesthetics of Visual Music
Germán Gil-Curiel, Sino-British College, Shanghai, China
Chapter 4: The China Melody: Musical Invention of Borderless Fantasy on Japan's Imperial Screen
Chikako Nagayama, McMaster University, Canada
Chapter 5: Collective Nostalgia and Anxiety in Korean Film Music: Im Kwont'aek's Use of P'ansori in Sop'yonje
Jooyeon Rhee, Wittenberg University, USA
Chapter 6: 'Sobre las Olas', the Waltz and the Films: Classical Music and Mexican Identity
Armida de la Garza, Xian-Jiaotong Liverpool University, China
Chapter 7: Black Orpheus (1959) and Brazilian Identity
Hans Hess, University of Bristol, UK
Chapter 8: 'Yo soy un hombre sincero': Music and Nation-building in Cuban Cinema
Nicholas Balaisis, Concordia University, Canada
Chapter 9: 'Minor' Sounds in Flight: Musical Jourbaneys as Collective Oral Histories and Archival Sights and Sounds in the Films of Bahman Ghobadi
Rowena Santos Aquino, California State University, Long Beach, USA
Chapter 10: High and Low: Popular Music in Portuguese Film
Carolin Overhoff Ferreira, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Chapter 11: Between the Ceremonial and the Musical: Music and African Identity in the Films of Flora Gomes
Carolin Overhoff Ferreira, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Chapter 12: Between the Text and the Subtext: A Reading of Selected Benin Musical Video-Films from Nigeria
Osakue S. Omoera, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and Charles O. Aluede, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
Notes on Contributors
Glossary
Index