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Title: do not try to learn contemporary world cinema from this book
Review: The writer must be so brave to title her book "contemporary world cinema". It misses so many very important contemporary directors and films that you need a long time to make a list. To give an example I really have difficulty to understand why she mentions a movie like "Bend It Like Beckham" while explaining European cinema and does not even mention Bela Tarr or Haneke for instance. She talks about Korean cinema without mentioning Kim Ki-duk! In addition the sections are not balanced, she gives a longer account for South Asian cinema, probably because she knows it better! So do not try to learn contemporary cinema through this book.
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