De-westernizing film studies / edited by Saer Maty Ba and Will Higbee
Imprint
London : Routledge, 2012
Edition
1st ed
Descript
xv, 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Past 1. (Dis-) Continuities of the cinematic imaginary: (non-)representation, discourse, and theory: Imag[in]ng the universe: cosmos, otherness and cinema / Edward George and Anna Piva (Flow Motion) -- Questioning discourses of diaspora: "Black" cinema as symptom / Saer Maty Ba -- Affective passions: the dancing female body and colonial rupture in Zouzou (1934) and Karmen Gei (2001) / Saer Maty Ba and Kate E. Taylor-Jones -- African frameworks of analysis for African film studies / Sheila J. Petty -- Past 2. Narrating the (trans)nation, region, and community from non-Western perspectives : De-Westernizing national cinema: re-imagined communities in the films of Ferid Boughedir / Will Higbee -- Banal transnationalism: on Makhmalbaf's "borderless" filmmaking / Shahab Esfandiary -- Griots and talanoa speak : storytelling as theoretical frames in African and Pacific Island cinemas / Yifen T. Beus -- The intra-East cinema: the re-framing of an "East Asian" film sphere / Kate E. Taylor-Jones -- Past 3. New (dis-)continuities from "within" the West : "A double set of glasses": Stanley Kubrick and the midrashic mode of interpretation / Nathan Abrams -- Situated bodies, cinematic orientations: film and (queer) phenomenology / Katharina Lindner -- Has film ever been Western?: continuity and the question of building a "common" cinema / William Brown -- Past 4. Interviews: "There is no entirely non-Western place left": de-Westernizing the moving image: an interview with Coco Fusco -- De-Westernizing film through experimental practice: an interview with Patti Gaal-Holmes -- "With our own pen and paper": an interview with Teddy E. Mattera -- "To colonize a subject matter is to learn nothing from it": an interview with Jonnie Clementi-Smith -- "Isn't it strange that 'world' means everything outside the West?": an interview with Rod Stoneman -- Beyond stereotypes and preconceptions: an interview with Farida Benlyazid -- "About structure, not about individual instances": an interview with Daniel Lindvall -- "Still waiting for a reciprocal de-Westernization": an interview with Mohammed Bakrim -- "Moving away from a sense of cultures as pure spaces": an interview with Deborah Shaw -- Nu third queer cinema: an interview with Campbell X -- "To start with a blank slate of free choices": an interview with Kuljit Bhamra -- "The crazy dream of living without the Other": an interview with Olivier Barlet -- "De-Westernizing as double move": an interview with John Akomfrah