De-Westernizing Film Studies

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.

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 …