World Cinema And The Ethics Of Realism."World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism" is a highly original study. Traditional views of cinematic realism usually draw on the so called classical cinema and its allegiance to narrative mimesis, but Nagib challenges this, drawing instead on the filmmaker's commitment to truth and to the film medium's material bond with the real. Starting from the premise that world cinema's creative peaks are governed by an ethics of realism, Nagib conducts