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1 online resource (297 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Saër Maty Bâ and Will Higbee -- Part I: (Dis- )continuities of the cinematic imaginary : (non- )representation, discourse and theory. Imagi[ni]ng the universe: cosmos, otherness and cinema / Eddie George and Anna Piva ; Questioning discourses of diaspora : "Black" cinema as symptom / Saër Maty Bâ ; Affective passions : the dancing female body and colonial rupture in Zouzou (1934) and Karmen Geï (2001) / Saër Maty Bâ and Kate E. Taylor-Jones ; African frameworks of analysis for African film studies / Sheila J. Petty -- Part II: Narrating the (trans)nation, region and community from non-western perspectives. De-westernizing national cinema : re-imagined communities in the films of Férid Boughedir / Will Higbee ; Banal transnationalism : on Makhmalbaf's "Borderless" filmmaking / Shahab Esfandiary ; Griots and Talanoa speak : storytelling as theoretical frames in African and Pacific Island cinemas / Yifen Beus ; The intra-east cinema : the re-framing of an "East Asian" film sphere / Kate E. Taylor-Jones -- Part III: (Dis- )continuities from "within" the West. "A double set of glasses" : Stanley Kubrick and the midrashic mode of interpretation / Nathan Abrams ; Situated bodies, cinematic orientations : film and (queer) phenomenology / Katharina Lindner ; Has film ever been Western? continuity and the question of building a "common" cinema / William Brown -- Part IV: Interviews. "There is no entirely non-western place left" : de-westernizing the moving image : an interview with Coco Fusco ; De-westernizing film through experimental practice : an interview with Patti Gaal-Holmes ; "With our own pen and papers" : an interview with Teddy E. Mattera ; "To colonize a subject matter is to learn nothing from it" : an interview with Jonnie Clementi-Smith ; "Isn't it strange that 'world' means everything outside the West?" : an interview with Rod Stoneman ; Beyond stereotypes and preconceptions : an interview with Farida Benlyazid ; "About structure, not about individual instances" : an interview with Daniel Lindvall ; "Still waiting for a reciprocal de-westernization" : an interview with Mohammed Bakrim ; "Moving away from a sense of cultures as pure spaces" : an interview with Deborah Shaw ; Nu third queer cinema : an interview with Campbell X ; "To start with a blank slate of free choices" : an interview with Kuljit Bhamra ; "The crazy dream of living without the other" : an interview with Olivier Barlet ; "De-westernizing as double move" : an interview with John Akomfrah |
| 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 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 contributors to th |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy
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Film criticism -- Developing countries
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Film criticism
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy
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Filmwissenschaft
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Filmästhetik
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Interkulturalität
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Film
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Filmteori.
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Developing countries
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Nichtwestliche Welt
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Higbee, Will
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| ISBN |
9781136502521 |
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1136502521 |
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9780203144244 |
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0203144244 |
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