Lucia Nagib is Centenary Professor of World Cinema and Director of the Centre for World Cinemas at the University of Leeds. Her books include 'Werner Herzog - Film as Realit'y, 'Born of the Ashes: The Auteur and the Individual in Oshima's Films', 'Around the Japanese Nouvelle Vague' and (as editor) 'The New Brazilian Cinema' (I.B. Tauris, 2004). She is Series Editor of 'Tauris World Cinema Series'.