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.

Introduction / Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller -- pt. I: Cinemas of empire. Introduction to part I / Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller -- Italian fascism's empire cinema: Kif Tebbi, the conquest of Libya, and the assault on the nomadic / Ruth Ben-Ghiat -- Blackface, faciality, and colony nostalgia in 1930s empire films / Julie Codell -- The socialist historical film / Anikó Imre -- pt. II: Postcolonial cinemas: unframing histories. Introduction to part II / Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller -- From otherness "over there" to virtual presence: Camp de Thiaroye, The battle of Algiers, Hidden / Hamish Ford -- Fraught frames: Fatima, l'algérienne de Dakar and postcolonial quandaries / Jude G. Akudinobi -- Postcolonial relationalities in Philippe Faucon's Dans la vie / Mireille Rosello -- The postcolonial condition of "Indochinese" cinema from Việt Nam, Cambodia, and Laos / Mariam B. Lam -- pt. III: Postcolonial cinemas: postcolonial aesthetics. Introduction to part III / Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller -- Spectral postcoloniality: Lusophone postcolonial film and the imaginary of the nation / Paulo de Medeiros -- The aesthetics of postcolonial cinema in Raul Ruiz…