Postcolonial Cinema Studies

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/neocolonial histori.

Cover; Postcolonial Cinema Studies; Copyright; 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 Việt 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: Po…