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:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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/neo

Contents:

Contents

Figures

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I : Cinemas of empire

Introduction to Part I

Chapter 1: Italian Fascism's empire cinema: Kif Tebbi, the conquest of Libya, and the assault on the nomadic

Chapter 2: Blackface, faciality, and colony nostalgia in 1930s empire films

Chapter 3: The socialist historical film

Part II : Postcolonial cinemas: Unframing histories

Introduction to Part II

Chapter 4: From otherness "over there" to virtual presence: Camp de Thiaroye - The Battle of Algiers - Hidden

Chapter 5: Fraught frames: Fatima, L'Algérienne de Dakar and postcolonial quandariesChapter 6: Postcolonial relationalities in Philippe Faucon's Dans la vie

Chapter 7: The postcolonial condition of "Indochinese" cinema from Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Laos

Part III : Postcolonial cinemas: postcolonial aesthetics

Introduction to Part III

Chapter 8: Spectral postcoloniality: Lusophone postcolonial film and the imaginary of the nation

Chapter 9: The aesthetics of postcolonial cinema in Raul Ruiz's Three Crowns of the Sailor

Chapter 10: The postcolonial circus: Maurizio Nichetti's Luna e l'altraChapter 11: Postcolonial adaptations: gained and lost in translation

Part IV : Postcolonial cinemas and globalization

Introduction to Part IV

Chapter 12: Unpeople: postcolonial reflections on terror, torture and detention in Children of Men

Chapter 13: Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding and the transcoded audiologic of postcolonial convergence

Chapter 14: Nollywood in transit: The globalization of Nigerian video culture

Chapter 15: Postface: An interview with Priya Jaikumar

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Postcolonial cinema studies.

ISBN:

1-136-59204-0

0-203-18147-6

1-136-59205-9

9780203181478

OCLC:

798534033