The core volume in the series introduces a wide range of world cinematic movements. The core volume in the Traditions in World Cinema series, this book brings together a colourful and wide ranging collection of world cinematic traditions - national, regional and global - all of which are in need of introduction, investigation and, in some cases, critical reassessment. The movements described and analyzed include: German expressionism, Italian neorealism, French New Wave, British New Wave, Czech New Wave, Danish Dogma, post-Communist cinema, Brazilian post-Cinema Novo, new Argentine cinema, pre-revolutionary African traditions, Israeli persecution films, new Iranian cinema, Hindi film songs, Chinese wenyi pian melodrama, Japanese horror, new Hollywood cinema and global found footage cinema.