Postcolonial Film
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Postcolonial Film
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Author : Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-02-24
Postcolonial Film written by Rebecca Weaver-Hightower and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-24 with Art categories.
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.
Postcolonial Images
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Author : Roy Armes
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2005-02-23
Postcolonial Images written by Roy Armes and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-23 with Performing Arts categories.
A comprehensive introduction to North African film.
Postcolonial Cinema Studies
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Author : Sandra Ponzanesi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-03-12
Postcolonial Cinema Studies written by Sandra Ponzanesi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-12 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
African Cinema
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Author : Kenneth W. Harrow
language : en
Publisher: Africa World Press
Release Date : 1999
African Cinema written by Kenneth W. Harrow and has been published by Africa World Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Visual Difference
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Author : Elizabeth Heffelfinger
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2011
Visual Difference written by Elizabeth Heffelfinger and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Culture in motion pictures categories.
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.
Postcolonial Theory And Avatar
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Author : Gautam Basu Thakur
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2015-11-19
Postcolonial Theory And Avatar written by Gautam Basu Thakur and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-19 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
Film Genres And African Cinema
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Author : Rachael Langford
language : en
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Release Date : 2020-09-30
Film Genres And African Cinema written by Rachael Langford and has been published by I. B. Tauris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-30 with categories.
The role of film genre in African films from the 1960s to the present day is an important aspect of this cinema. Rachael Langford explores the ways in which African filmmakers use and renew the conventions of familiar film genres. She discusses what working with film genre means for African directors, and why work with genre is such a significant facet of their creative endeavour. She focuses, in turn, on the Western, the combat movie, the epic, documentary films, the road movie and the musical film. She also examines the work of a wide range of African directors, including familiar names such as Ousmane Sembene (Senegal) and Souleymane Cissé (Mali), as well as less well-known directors such as Mahamat Saleh Haroun (Chad), Safia Mohamed Iddi (Tanzania) and Lovinsa Kavuma (South Africa). Positioned at the intersection of film, postcolonial and cultural studies, this book fills a significant gap in the literature on African cinemas and on film genre.
Film Media And Representation In Postcolonial South Asia
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Author : Nukhbah Taj Langah
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2021-07-28
Film Media And Representation In Postcolonial South Asia written by Nukhbah Taj Langah and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-28 with Social Science categories.
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.
Postcolonial African Cinema
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Author : David Murphy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Postcolonial African Cinema written by David Murphy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Postcolonial African Cinema constitutes a new departure in African film studies. Recognizing the maturity of the field and the need for complex yet accessible approaches that move beyond the purely descriptive while refusing to get bogged down in theoretical jargon. This is the first introduction of its kind to an important cross-section of postcolonial African filmmakers from the 1950s to the present. Building on previous critical work in the field, this volume brings together ideas from a range of disciplines to combine the in-depth analysis of individual films and bodies of work by individual directors. Chapters provide an overview of the director's output to date and the necessary background to give a better understanding of the director's choice of subject matter, aesthetic or formal strategies, and ideological stance.
Postcolonialism Diaspora And Alternative Histories
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Author : Tony Williams
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2015-05-01
Postcolonialism Diaspora And Alternative Histories written by Tony Williams and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-01 with Performing Arts categories.
This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of the cinema of Evans Chan, a New York–based playwright, author, and filmmaker whose acclaimed films include To Liv(e), The Map of Sex and Love, and Datong. In this collection of essays on Chan's documentary and feature films seven experts on cultural and film studies examine the unique blending of fictional representation, historical investigation, and critical essayism that characterize Chan'soeuvre. They discuss how Chan’s work brings out the contradictory nature of the distant and recent past through his exploration of Hong Kong's rapid transformation before and after reunification with China in 1997. The volume concludes with an interview with Evans Chan on his work to date and includes two DVDs containing five of his most important films. The book will appeal to scholars and students who are interested in China and Hong Kong cinema, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and diaspora studies. "Covering a broad range of topics and issues that shed light on the aesthetic, sociopolitical and intellectual dimensions of Chan's work, the individual chapters contribute to a collective reflection on the formal qualities of Chan's cinematic art, in particular his creative use of the film essay as a mode of artistic expression. The essays have sought out the latent aesthetic and intellectual impulses that inform Chan's cinematic vision."—Vivian Lee, author of Hong Kong Cinema Since 1997: The Post-Nostalgic Imagination "This fascinating anthology is a much-needed examination of Chan's eminent yet underappreciated cinema. The volume illuminates his filmmaking from a number of angles, enriching our understanding of his complex engagement with Chinese politics, history, and the essay film. Capped by a comprehensive interview with Chan himself, this indispensable volume does full justice to one of Hong Kong's most literate and literary filmmakers.”—Gary Bettinson, author of The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai and editor of the journal Asian Cinema