Postcolonial cinema studies / edited by Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ponzanesi, Sandra, 1967-

Waller, Marguerite R., 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Political aspects.

Motion pictures.

Imperialism in motion pictures.

Nationalism in motion pictures.

Intercultural communication in motion pictures.

Culture in motion pictures.

Multiculturalism in motion pictures.

Motion pictures and globalization.

Physical Description:

xviii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Summary:

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, US, 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller

pt. I: Cinemas of empire. Introduction to part I / Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller

Italian fascism's empire cinema: Kif Tebbi, the conquest of Libya, and the assault on the nomadic / Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Blackface, faciality, and colony nostalgia in 1930s empire films / Julie Codell

The socialist historical film / Anikó Imre

pt. II: Postcolonial cinemas: unframing histories. Introduction to part II / Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller

From otherness "over there" to virtual presence: Camp de Thiaroye, The battle of Algiers, Hidden / Hamish Ford

Fraught frames: Fatima, l'algérienne de Dakar and postcolonial quandaries / Jude G. Akudinobi

Postcolonial relationalities in Philippe Faucon's Dans la vie / Mireille Rosello

The postcolonial condition of "Indochinese" cinema from Việt Nam, Cambodia, and Laos / Mariam B. Lam

pt. III: Postcolonial cinemas: postcolonial aesthetics. Introduction to part III / Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller

Spectral postcoloniality: Lusophone postcolonial film and the imaginary of the nation / Paulo de Medeiros

The aesthetics of postcolonial cinema in Raul Ruiz's Three crowns of the sailor / Sabine Doran

The postcolonial circus: Maurizio Nichetti's Luna e l'altra / Marguerite Waller

Postcolonial adaptations: gained and lost in translation / Sandra Ponzanesi

pt. IV: Postcolonial cinemas and globalization. Introduction to part IV / Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller

Unpeople: postcolonial reflections on terror, torture, and detention in Children of men / Shohini Chaudhuri

Mira Nair's Monsoon wedding and the transcoded audiologic of postcolonial convergence / Kanika Batra and Rich Rice

Nollywood in transit: the globalization of Nigerian video culture / Claudia Hoffmann

Postface: an interview with Priya Jaikumar.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415782289

0415782287

9780415782296

0415782295

9780203181478

0203181476

OCLC:

659750847