Postcolonial Cinema Studies

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-415-78229-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates in both cinema and postcolonial studies. Postcolonial cinema is presented, not as a rigid category, but as an optic through which to address questions of postcolonial historiography, geography, subjectivity, and epistemology.

Current circumstances of migration and immigration, militarization, economic exploitation, racial and religious conflict, enactments of citizenship, and cultural self-representation have deep roots in colonial/postcolonial/neocolonial histories. Contributors deeply engage the tense asymmetries bequeathed to the contemporary world by the multiple,diverse, and overlapping histories of European, Soviet, U.S., and multi-national imperial ventures. With interdisciplinary expertise, they discover and explore the conceptual temporalities and spatialities of postcoloniality, with an emphasis on the politics of form, the ‘postcolonial aesthetics’ through which filmmakers challenge themselves and their viewers to move beyond national and imperial imaginaries.

Contributors include: Jude G. Akudinobi, Kanika Batra, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Shohini Chaudhuri, Julie F. Codell, Sabine Doran, Hamish Ford, Claudia Hoffmann, Anikó Imre, Priya Jaikumar, Mariam B. Lam, Paulo de Medeiros, Sandra Ponzanesi, Richard Rice, Mireille Rosello and Marguerite Waller.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ponzanesi, Sandra

Waller, Marguerite

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Film, Video, Foto
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller Part I: Cinemas of Empire 1. Italian fascism’s empire cinema: Kif Tebbi, the conquest of Libya, and the assault on the nomadic, Ruth Ben-Ghiat 2. ‘La propagande impériale par le cinéma': Developing a French Film Policy in the Colonies, Panivong Norindr 3. Blackface, Faciality, and Colony Nostalgia in 1930s Empire Films, Julie Codell Part II: Postcolonial Cinemas - Unframing Histories 4. Fraught frames: Fatima, l’algérienne de Dakar and Postcolonial Quandaries, Jude Akudinobi 5. From ‘Over There’ to Inside: Camp de Thiaroye, The Battle of Algiers and Hidden, Hamish Ford 6. Postcolonial relationalities: Toulon, Oran, Mecca, and Palestine Philippe Faucon's Dans la vie, Mireille Rosello 7. The Socialist Historical Film, Anikó Imre Part III: Postcolonial Cinemas - Postcolonial Aesthetics 8. Spectral Postcoloniality: Lusophone Postcolonial Film and the Imaginary of the Nation, Paulo de Medeiros 9. The Aesthetics of Postcolonial Cinema in Raul Ruiz’s Three Crowns of a Sailor, Sabine Doran 11. The Post-colonial Circus: Maurizio Nichetti’s Luna e l’altra, Marguerite Waller 12. Postcolonial Adaptations: Gained and Lost in Translation, Sandra Ponzanesi Part IV: (Post)colonialism and Globalization 13. Nollywood in Transit:The Globalization of Nigerian Video Culture, Claudia Hoffmann 14. Mira Nair’s 'Monsoon Wedding' and the Transcoded Audiologic of Postcolonial Convergence, Kanika Batra and Richard Rice 15. Unpeople: Postcolonial Reflections on Terror, Torture and Detention in 'Children of Men', Shohini Chaudhuri 16. Postface: Interview with Priya Jaikumar

Über Autor(innen)

Sandra Ponzanesi is Associate Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Critique, department of Media and Culture Studies/Gender Programme at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Among her publications are Paradoxes of Post-colonial Culture (2004), Migrant Cartographies (2005) and Deconstructing Europe: Postcolonial Perspectives (Routledge, 2011).

Marguerite Waller is Professor of Women's Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside. Among her publications are Frontline Feminisms (Routledge, 2001), Federico Fellini (2002), Dialogue and Difference: Feminisms Challenge Globalization (2005), and The Wages of Empire (2007).