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De-westernizing film studies

Title
De-westernizing film studies / edited by Saer Maty Ba and Will Higbee.
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Bâ, Saër Maty.
  • Higbee, Will.
Description
xv, 280 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Motion pictures > Philosophy
  • Film criticism > Developing countries
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
MFL 13-5330
ISBN
  • 9780415687836 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0415687837 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9780415687843 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0415687845 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2011051418
OCLC
748335664
Title
De-westernizing film studies / edited by Saer Maty Ba and Will Higbee.
Imprint
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Bâ, Saër Maty.
Higbee, Will.
Research Call Number
MFL 13-5330
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