Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
De-westernizing film studies
- Available as
- Online
- Physical
- Summary
-
De-Westernizing Film Studies aims to consider what form a challenge to the enduring vision of film as a medium - and film studies as a discipline - modelled on 'Western' ideologies, theoretical and...
De-Westernizing Film Studies aims to consider what form a challenge to the enduring vision of film as a medium - and film studies as a discipline - modelled on 'Western' ideologies, theoretical and historical frameworks, critical perspectives as well as institutional and artistic practices, might take today. The book combines a range of scholarly writing with critical reflection from filmmakers, artists & industry professionals, comprising experience and knowledge from a wide range of geographical areas, film cultures and (trans-)national perspectives. In their own ways, the contri
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- edited by Saer Maty Ba and Will Higbee
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
-
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2012
- Physical Details
-
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9786613918888, 9780203144244, 1136502521, 0415687837, 1283606437, 9780415687836, 0415687845, 0203144244, 9780415687843, 1136502513
- OCLC
- ocn811506161, ocn811184179, ocn748335664
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Foreword by Graeme Harper; Introduction: de-Westernizing film studies; PART I (Dis-)Continuities of the cinematic imaginary: (non-)representation, discourse, and theory; 1 Imag(in)ing the universe: cosmos, otherness, and cinema; 2 Questioning discourses of diaspora: "black" cinema as symptom; 3 Affective passions: the dancing female body and colonial rupture in Zouzou (1934) and Karmen Geï (2001); 4 African frameworks of analysis for African film studies
- PART II Narrating the (trans)nation, region, and community from non-Western perspectives5 De-Westernizing national cinema: reimagined communities in the films of Férid Boughedir; 6 Banal transnationalism: on Mohsen Makhmalbaf's "borderless" filmmaking; 7 Griots and talanoa speak: storytelling as theoretical frames in African and Pacific Island cinemas; 8 The intra-East cinema: the reframing of an "East Asian film sphere"; PART III New (dis-)continuities from "within" the West; 9 "A double set of glasses": Stanley Kubrick and the midrashic mode of interpretation
- 10 Situated bodies, cinematic orientations: film and (queer) phenomenology11 Has film ever been Western? Continuity and the question of building a "common" cinema; PART IV Interviews; 12 "There is no entirely non-Western place left": de-Westernizing the moving image, an interview with Coco Fusco; 13 De-Westernizing film through experimental practice: an interview with Patti Gaal-Holmes; 14 "With our own pen and paper": an interview with Teddy E. Mattera; 15 "To colonize a subject matter is to learn nothing from it": an interview with Jonnie Clementi-Smith
- 16 "Isn't it strange that 'world' means everything outside the West?": an interview with Rod Stoneman17 Beyond stereotypes and preconceptions: an interview with Farida Benlyazid; 18 "About structure, not about individual instances": an interview with Daniel Lindvall; 19 "Still waiting for a reciprocal de-Westernization": an interview with Mohammed Bakrim; 20 "Moving away from a sense of cultures as pure spaces": an interview with Deborah Shaw; 21 Nu third queer cinema: an interview with Campbell X; 22 "To start with a blank slate of free choices": an interview with Kuljit Bhamra
- 23 "The crazy dream of living without the Other": an interview with Olivier Barlet24 "De-Westernizing as double move": an interview with John Akomfrah; Index