De-westernizing film studies

De-westernizing film studies

by Bâ, Saër Maty Higbee, Will

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'De-Westernizing Film Studies' considers 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.

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  • Full title :De-westernizing film studies / edited by Saër Maty Bâ and Will Higbee.

Summary

'De-Westernizing Film Studies' considers 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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xv, 280 pages : : illustrations.)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780203144244, 0203144244
  • oclc:on1330992082
  • LC Classification:PN1995
  • Dewey Decimal:791.4301

Table of Contents

Introduction / Saër Maty Bâ and Will Higbee -- (Dis- )continuities of the cinematic imaginary: (non- )representation, discourse and theory. Imag[in]ing 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 -- 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 -- (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 a…

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Subjects

developing countries Film criticism Film criticism -- Developing countries Motion pictures -- Philosophy

Writers

Bâ, Saër Maty Higbee, Will

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