![]() This book honours the importance, not just the beauty of cinematic art.’ Dudley Andrew ‘Lúcia Nagib’s book World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism injects new vitality and energy into some important but familiar debates in film theory. The films Nagib illuminates made and kept promises to the world they came from. This is a truly high-minded argument for cinema as the conscience of the past century. Ultimately tying these to historical struggles of filmmakers and the societies they worked within, she does in fact make good on her title. You can sense her pleasure at relaying to us the cinematic power she has found in cast-off ‘failures’ like I am Cuba or that she resuscitates in films we thought we knew, such as The400 Blows. Lúcia Nagib has a sharp eye for what, through her lens, become stupefying motifs and moments within films that she just as sharply cuts out of the vast herd of movies. ![]() ‘The Ethics of Realism may be too tame a title for the rambunctious scholarship this book contains.
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