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 questi…
This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates in both cinema and postcolonial studies.
'Visions of the East' uses Edward Said's framework and more recent developments in colonialist and post-colonial studies to explore orientalism in a wide range of films, including Indochine, Madame Butterfly and Disney's Aladdin.
The United States has always imagined that its identity as a nation is insulated from violent interventions abroad, as if a line between domestic and foreign affairs could be neatly drawn. Yet this book argues that such a distinction, so obviously impracticable in our own global…
"In this book, Amy Kaplan shows how U.S. imperialism - from "Manifest Destiny" to the "American Century"--Has profoundly shaped key elements of American culture at home, and how the struggle for power over foreign peoples and places has disrupted the quest for domestic order." "…
