Cinema Colonialism Postcolonialism

Author : Dina Sherzer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292787599

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Cinema, Colonialism, Postcolonialism by Dina Sherzer Pdf

In this first major study of French colonial and postcolonial cinema, Dina Sherzer compiles essays by some of the foremost scholars on the subject who interrogate and analyze the realities behind the images of the nation's past and present. Through an examination of France and its colonies, multiethnic contemporary France, and cinematic discourses which have been and are being produced about France's colonial past, these authors explore how the images relay underlying assumptions and their relation to historical and political facts. A variety of subjects and viewpoints inform these studies, which cover the entire range of films on that topic. The authors expound upon the role French and Francophone films are currently playing in reconstructing and imagining France's colonial past. Not only do the essays examine how French cinema has represented the encounter of French citizens with individuals from former colonies during the colonial era; they examine how French cinema has portrayed and has come to terms with the immigration of former colonial subjects to France. In addition, the book features another postcolonial facet by analyzing films of directors from the former colonies who give their own representation of colonialism and presentation of their culture. This study is a major contribution to postcolonial research. Race, gender, and geography are central themes throughout this book that presents innovative material that contributes to the history of French cinema and emphasizes how cinema participates in and is a part of national culture.

Author : Dina Sherzer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0292777035

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Cinema, Colonialism, Postcolonialism by Dina Sherzer Pdf

In this first major study of French colonial and postcolonial cinema, Dina Sherzer compiles essays by some of the foremost scholars on the subject who interrogate and analyze the realities behind the images of the nation’s past and present. Through an examination of France and its colonies, multiethnic contemporary France, and cinematic discourses which have been and are being produced about France’s colonial past, these authors explore how the images relay underlying assumptions and their relation to historical and political facts. A variety of subjects and viewpoints inform these studies, which cover the entire range of films on that topic. The authors expound upon the role French and Francophone films are currently playing in reconstructing and imagining France’s colonial past. Not only do the essays examine how French cinema has represented the encounter of French citizens with individuals from former colonies during the colonial era; they examine how French cinema has portrayed and has come to terms with the cohabitation of former colonial subjects with the French in France. In addition, the book features another postcolonial facet by analyzing films of directors from the former colonies who give their own representation of colonialism and presentation of their culture. This study is a major contribution to postcolonial research. Race, gender, and geography are central themes throughout this book that presents innovative material that contributes to the history of French cinema and emphasizes how cinema participates in and is a part of national culture.

Author : Sandra Ponzanesi,Marguerite Waller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136592041

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Postcolonial Cinema Studies by Sandra Ponzanesi,Marguerite Waller Pdf

This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates in both cinema and postcolonial studies. Postcolonial cinema is presented, not as a rigid category, but as an optic through which to address questions of postcolonial historiography, geography, subjectivity, and epistemology. Current circumstances of migration and immigration, militarization, economic exploitation, racial and religious conflict, enactments of citizenship, and cultural self-representation have deep roots in colonial/postcolonial/neocolonial histories. Contributors deeply engage the tense asymmetries bequeathed to the contemporary world by the multiple,diverse, and overlapping histories of European, Soviet, U.S., and multi-national imperial ventures. With interdisciplinary expertise, they discover and explore the conceptual temporalities and spatialities of postcoloniality, with an emphasis on the politics of form, the ‘postcolonial aesthetics’ through which filmmakers challenge themselves and their viewers to move beyond national and imperial imaginaries. Contributors include: Jude G. Akudinobi, Kanika Batra, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Shohini Chaudhuri, Julie F. Codell, Sabine Doran, Hamish Ford, Claudia Hoffmann, Anikó Imre, Priya Jaikumar, Mariam B. Lam, Paulo de Medeiros, Sandra Ponzanesi, Richard Rice, Mireille Rosello and Marguerite Waller.

Author : Rebecca Weaver-Hightower,Peter Hulme
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134747276

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Postcolonial Film by Rebecca Weaver-Hightower,Peter Hulme Pdf

Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance examines films of the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries from postcolonial countries around the globe. In the mid twentieth century, the political reality of resistance and decolonization lead to the creation of dozens of new states, forming a backdrop to films of that period. Towards the century’s end and at the dawn of the new millennium, film continues to form a site for interrogating colonization and decolonization, though against a backdrop that is now more neo-colonial than colonial and more culturally imperial than imperial. This volume explores how individual films emerged from and commented on postcolonial spaces and the building and breaking down of the European empire. Each chapter is a case study examining how a particular film from a postcolonial nation emerges from and reflects that nation’s unique postcolonial situation. This analysis of one nation’s struggle with its coloniality allows each essay to investigate just what it means to be postcolonial.

Author : Rossen Djagalov
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228002024

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From Internationalism to Postcolonialism by Rossen Djagalov Pdf

Would there have been a Third World without the Second? Perhaps, but it would have looked very different. From Internationalism to Postcolonialism recounts the story of two Cold War-era cultural formations that claimed to represent the Third World project in literature and cinema, and offers a compelling genealogy of contemporary postcolonial studies.

Author : Nadine Chan,Aaron Gerow,Jane Marie Gaines,Zhen Zhang,Thomas A. C. Barker,Nikki J. Y. Lee,José B. Capino
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253059765

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Theorizing Colonial Cinema by Nadine Chan,Aaron Gerow,Jane Marie Gaines,Zhen Zhang,Thomas A. C. Barker,Nikki J. Y. Lee,José B. Capino Pdf

Theorizing Colonial Cinema is a millennial retrospective on the entangled intimacy between film and colonialism from film's global inception to contemporary legacies in and of Asia. The volume engages new perspectives by asking how prior discussions on film form, theory, history, and ideology may be challenged by centering the colonial question rather than relegating it to the periphery. To that end, contributors begin by excavating little-known archives and perspectives from the colonies as a departure from a prevailing focus on Europe's imperial histories and archives about the colonies. The collection pinpoints various forms of devaluation and misrecognition both in and beyond the region that continue to relegate local voices to the margins. This pathbreaking study on global film history advances prior scholarship by bringing together an array of established and new interdisciplinary voices from film studies, Asian studies, and postcolonial studies to consider how the present is continually haunted by the colonial past.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780520295308

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by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kenneth W. Harrow
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0865436975

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African Cinema by Kenneth W. Harrow Pdf

This collection of essays deals directly and compellingly with contemporary issues in African cinema. In particular, they address key aspects of post-colonialism and feminism - the two major topics of interest in current criticism of African films - but coverage is also given to spectatorship, national identity, ethnography, patriarchy, and the creation of key film industries in developing countries.

Author : Gautam Basu Thakur
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781628925692

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Postcolonial Theory and Avatar by Gautam Basu Thakur Pdf

The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. The second book in the series, Postcolonial Theory and Avatar offers a concise introduction to postcolonial theory in jargon-free language and shows how this theory can be deployed to interpret James Cameron's high-grossing, immensely popular, and critically acclaimed 2009 film. Avatar is widely celebrated for its politically and culturally sensitive critique of the “West's” neocolonial wars and exploitation of the “global south” – an allegory for (neo)colonialism – and for highlighting the plight of tribal communities throughout the world (for instance, the case of the Dongriah Kondh tribe of India). At the same time, it has been also criticized for repeating the colonialist fantasy of saving natives doomed by imperialist aggression. Intervening in this debate over how to read the film, Basu Thakur focuses on issues of representations, discourse, subalternity, and subjectivity, all of which have been central to postcolonial theory and postcolonial analyses of culture. This history will help students and scholars who are eager to learn more about this important area of theory and bring the concepts of postcolonial theory into practice through a detailed interpretation of the film.

Author : Robyn Duff Ladino
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0292746911

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Desegregating Texas Schools by Robyn Duff Ladino Pdf

"Mansfield, Texas, a small community southeast of Fort Worth, was the scene of an early school integration attempt. In this book, Robyn Duff Ladino draws on interviews with surviving participants, media reports, and archival research to provide the first full account of the Mansfield school integration crisis of 1956." "Ladino explores how power politics at the local, state, and federal levels ultimately prevented the integration of Mansfield High School in 1956." "Despite the short-term failure, however, the Mansfield school integration crisis helped pave the way for the successful integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. Thus, it deserves a permanent place in the history of the civil rights movement, which this book amply provides."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Kenneth W. Harrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015064949012

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Postcolonial African Cinema by Kenneth W. Harrow Pdf

A new critical approach to African cinema

Author : Gerald Sim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9463721932

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Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema by Gerald Sim Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Heffelfinger,Laura Wright
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Culture in motion pictures
ISBN : 1433105950

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Visual Difference by Elizabeth Heffelfinger,Laura Wright Pdf

To date, no text exists that focuses exclusively on the concept of postcolonial film as a framework for identifying films produced within and outside of various formerly colonized nations, nor is there a scholarly text that addresses pedagogical issues about and frameworks for teaching such films. This book borrows from and respects various forms of categorization - intercultural, global, third, and accented - while simultaneously seeking to make manifest an alternate space of signification. What feels like a mainstream approach is pedagogically necessary in terms of access, both financial and physical, to the films discussed herein, given that this text proposes models for teaching these works at the university and secondary levels. The focus of this work is therefore twofold: to provide the methodology to read and teach postcolonial film, and also to provide analyses in which scholars and teachers can explore the ways that the films examined herein work to further and complicate our understanding of «postcolonial» as a fraught and evolving theoretical stance.

Author : Prem Chowdhry
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Colonies
ISBN : 0719057256

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Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema by Prem Chowdhry Pdf

An empirico-historical inquiry into the empire cinema in Hollywood and Britain during the turbulent 1930s and 1940s. It shows how the empire cinema constructed the colonial world, its rationale for doing so, and the manner in which such constructions were received by the colonized people.

Author : Nukhbah Taj Langah,Roshni Sengupta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000422573

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Film, Media and Representation in Postcolonial South Asia by Nukhbah Taj Langah,Roshni Sengupta Pdf

This volume brings together new studies and interdisciplinary research on the changing mediascapes in South Asia. Focusing on India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, it explores the transformations in the sphere of cinema, television, performing arts, visual cultures, cyber space and digital media, beyond the traumas of the partitions of 1947 and 1971. Through wide-ranging essays on soft power, performance, film, and television; art and visual culture; and cyber space, social media, and digital texts, the book bridges the gap in the study of the postcolonial and post-Partition developments to reimagine South Asia through a critical understanding of popular culture and media. The volume includes scholars and practitioners from the subcontinent to foster dialogue across the borders, and presents diverse and in-depth studies on film, media and representation in the region. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of media and film studies, postcolonial studies, visual cultures, political studies, partition history, cultural studies, mass media, popular culture, history, sociology and South Asian studies, as well as to media practitioners, journalists, writers, and activists.