De-westernizing film studies

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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.

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Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

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

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Description:xv, 280 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780415687836, 0415687837, 9780415687843, 0415687845, 9780203144244, 0203144244
oclc:ocn748335664
LC Classification:PN1995
Dewey Decimal:791.4301

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 orientatio…

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Bibel, Philemonbrief developing countries Film criticism Film criticism -- Developing countries Filmästhetik Filmwissenschaft Interkulturalität Motion pictures -- Philosophy Nichtwestliche Welt Performing arts