Research Catalog

Title

Cinematic settlers : the settler colonial world in film / edited by Janne Lahti and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower.

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lahti, Janne
• Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca

Description

xviii, 218 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm

Summary

"This anthology adds to the burgeoning field of settler colonial studies by examining settler colonial narratives in the underanalyzed medium of film. Cinematic Settlers discusses different cinematic genres, national traditions, and specific movies in order to expose related threads, shared circulations of knowledge, and paralleled representations. Organized into thematic groupings- conquest, settlers, natives, and space- the contributors explore the question of how film compares to written genres and other visual media in representing and effecting settler colonialism on a global scale. Striving for inclusiveness, the volume covers different eras and settler colonial situations in Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Hawaii, the American West, Canada, Latin America, Russia, France, Algeria, German Africa, South Africa, and even the next frontier: outer space. By showing how films offer layered, contested, and dynamic settler colonial narratives that advance settler hegemonic readings, the essays enable students to better analyze and understand the complex history of diversity and colonialism in film. This book is important reading for undergraduate classes on the history of empire, colonialism, and film."--Page 4 of cover.

Subject

• Colonists in motion pictures
• Pioneers in motion pictures
• Colonies in motion pictures
• Indigenous peoples in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Reel settler colonialism : gazing, reception, and production of global settler cinemas / Rebecca Weaver-Hightower and Janne Lahti -- Part I. Conquest. The South Pacific as the final frontier : Hollywood's South Seas fantasies, the beachcomber, and militarization / Delia Malia Konzett ; Environments of settler colonialism in statehood-era U.S. cinematic depictions of the Hawaiian Islands / Lawrence H. Kessler ; Settler-Aboriginal Alliance and the threat of foreign invasion in Baz Luhrmann's Australia / Travis Franks ; Settler Bolsheviks in the Soviet "Eastern" / Alexander Morrison -- Part II. Settlers. Gunless as settler colonial borderlands fantasy / Sheila McManus ; The unbearable settler West in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs / Janne Lahti ; Unser Haus in Kamerun : the restoration of settler colonial memory in German post-World War II cinema / Wolfgang Fuhrmann ; Negotiating between homelands : settler colonial situation and settler ambivalence in Taiwan cinema / Lin-chin Tsai -- Part III. Natives. Hero or dupe : Jay Swan and the ambivalences of Aboriginal masculinity in the films of Ivan Sen / Barry Judd ; In the land of the head hunters : Kwakwaka'wakw Archives and the settler colonial lens / Natale A. Zappia ; Disrupting settler innocence in Latin American films / M. Bianet Castellanos ; The "knack" of the Wilderpeople : post-settlement cinema in Aotearoa New Zealand / Misha Kavka and Stephen Turner -- Part IV. Space. Landscapes, wildlife, and Grey Owl : settler colonial imaginaries and tourist spaces in William J. Oliver's Parks Branch films, 1920s-1930s / Dominique Brégent-Heald ; From colonial casbah to casbah-banlieue : settlement and apace in Pépé le Moko (1937) and La Haine (1996) / Maria Flood ; Between Sherwood Forest and the Red Sea : settler colonial South Africa in early Hollywood / Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk ; Settler evasions in Interstellar and Cowboys and Aliens : thinking the end of the world is still easier than thinking the end of settler colonialism / Lorenzo Veracini.

Call Number

MFL 22-4674

ISBN

• 9780367503833
• 0367503832
• 9780367229986
• 0367229986

LCCN

2020010313

OCLC

1142887148

Title

Cinematic settlers : the settler colonial world in film / edited by Janne Lahti and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Lahti, Janne, editor.

Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Cinematic settlers. New York : Routledge, 2020 9781003057277 (DLC) 2020010314

Research Call Number

MFL 22-4674