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/neo.

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 10: The postcolonial circus: Maurizio Nichetti's Luna e l'altra Chapter 11: Postcolonial adaptations: gained and lost in translation ; Part IV : Postcolonial cinemas and globalization ; Introduction to Part IV; Chapter 12: Unpeople: postcolonial reflections on terror, torture and detention in Children of Men ; Chapter 13: Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding and the transcoded audiologic of postcolonial convergence ; Chapter 14: Nollywood in transit: The globalization of Nigerian video culture ; Chapter 15: Postface: An interview with Priya Jaikumar ; Index.