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The Sophisticate’s Guide to Global Cinema
A broad knowledge of world cinema is essential to being a well-rounded, globally-minded sophisticate—and that goes beyond being able to namedrop Ozu and Last Year at Mariebad. Today’s student of film looks beyond the well-traveled main road of established classics and critic’s darlings and delves into the dark back alleys, darkened underpasses and underused service roads that serve as home to some of the most unusual, original, and downright strange films the medium has to offer.
So why not let Todd Stadtman, author of Funky Bollywood: The Wild World of 1970s Indian Action Cinema, take you on a world tour of some of the most unique movies ever made, stopping in such far flung locations as Uganda, Turkey and Czechoslovakia along the way? It is a journey that will change you in unexpected ways, and some of them are good. Be you a social striver or a grasping toady in the making, The Sophisticate’s Guide to Global Cinema is the book that can help you realize your dreams.
Cover artwork by Andrew Nahem