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'de-westernizing Film Studies' Considers What Form A Challenge To The Enduring Vision Of Film As A Medium - And Film Studies As A Discipline - Modelled On 'western' Ideologies, Theoretical And Historical Frameworks, Critical Perspectives As Well As Institutional And Artistic Practices, Might Take Today. Introduction / Saër Maty Bâ And Will Higbee -- (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 -- Questioning Discourses Of Diaspora: Black Cinema As Symptom / Saër Maty Bâ -- Affective Passions: The Dancing Female Body And Colonial Rupture In Zouzou (1934) And Karmen Geï (2001) / Saër Maty Bâ And Kate E. Taylor-jones -- African Frameworks Of Analysis For African Film Studies / Sheila J. Petty -- 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 -- Banal Transnationalism: On Makhmalbaf's Borderless Filmmaking / Shahab Esfandiary -- Griots And Talanoa Speak: Storytelling As Theoretical Frames In African And Pacific Island Cinemas / Yifen Beus --^ The Intra-east Cinema: The Re-framing Of An East Asian Film Sphere / Kate E. Taylor-jones -- (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 -- 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 Papers: 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. Edited By Saër Maty Bâ And Will Higbee. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.