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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 Inter
This volume investigates the necessity and methodology of de-centering Western-centric frameworks within the academic discipline of film studies. Editors Saër Maty Bâ and Will Higbee curate a collection of essays that challenge the dominance of Western ideologies, historical narratives, and institutional practices in cinematic analysis. By integrating diverse theoretical perspectives from African, Pacific Island, and East Asian contexts, the authors propose a more inclusive and globalized approach to understanding the moving image.
What You Will Find
Scholars and students of media theory frequently cite this collection as a significant intervention in the field of film studies. The text is noted for its academic rigor and its ability to bridge the gap between traditional Western film theory and emerging global perspectives.
Page Count:
296
Publication Date:
2012-01-01
Publisher:
Routledge
ISBN-10:
0415687837
ISBN-13:
9780203144244
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