De-westernizing film studies
By: edited by Saër Maty Bâ and Will Higbee
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780415687836; 9780415687843; 9780203144244
Subjects: Motion pictures; Philosophy; Film criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Saër Maty Bâ and Will Higbee; title: (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; title: Questioning discourses of diaspora: "Black" cinema as symptom / Saër Maty Bâ; title: Affective passions: the dancing female body and colonial rupture in Zouzou (1934) and Karmen Geï (2001) / Saër Maty Bâ and Kate E. Taylor-Jones; title: African frameworks of analysis for African film studies / Sheila J. Petty; title: 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; title: Banal transnationalism: on Makhmalbaf's "Borderless" filmmaking / Shahab Esfandiary; title: Griots and Talanoa speak: storytelling as theoretical frames in African and Pacific Island cinemas / Yifen Beus; title: The intra-east cinema: the re-framing of an "East Asian" film sphere / Kate E. Taylor-Jones; title: (Dis-)continuities from "within" the West. "A double set of glasses": Stanley Kubrick and the midrashic mode of interpretation / Nathan Abrams; title: Situated bodies, cinematic orientations: film and (queer) phenomenology / Katharina Lindner; title: Has film ever been Western? continuity and the question of building a "common" cinema / William Brown; title: Interviews. "There is no entirely non-western place left": de-westernizing the moving image: an interview with Coco Fusco; title: De-westernizing film through experimental practice: an interview with Patti Gaal-Holmes; title: "With our own pen and papers": an interview with Teddy E. Mattera; title: "To colonize a subject matter is to learn nothing from it": an interview with Jonnie Clementi-Smith; title: "Isn't it strange that 'world' means everything outside the West?": an interview with Rod Stoneman; title: Beyond stereotypes and preconceptions: an interview with Farida Benlyazid; title: "About structure, not about individual instances": an interview with Daniel Lindvall; title: "Still waiting for a reciprocal de-westernization": an interview with Mohammed Bakrim; title: "Moving away from a sense of cultures as pure spaces": an interview with Deborah Shaw; title: Nu third queer cinema: an interview with Campbell X; title: "To start with a blank slate of free choices": an interview with Kuljit Bhamra; title: "The crazy dream of living without the other": an interview with Olivier Barlet; title: "De-westernizing as double move": an interview with John Akomfrah.