Postcolonial Film

History, Empire, Resistance
Herausgeber: Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca; Hulme, Peter

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Produktbeschreibung

Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance examines films of the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries from postcolonial countries around the globe.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Advances in Film Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9780415716147
• ISBN-10: 0415716144
• Artikelnr.: 39356806

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Weaver-Hightower is an Associate Professor of English specializing in postcolonial studies at the University of North Dakota. She is author of Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals and Fantasies of Conquest (2007), Frontier Fictions: Settler Sagas and the Origins of Postcolonial White Guilt (in progress), and Associate Editor of The Journal Of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. Peter Hulme is a Professor in Literature at the University of Essex and author, most recently, of Cuba's Wild East: A Literary Geography of Oriente . He is Assistant Editor of the journal Studies in Travel Writing.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: New Perspectives on Postcolonial Film Rebecca
Weaver-Hightower Part I: New Readings of Twentieth Century Anti-Colonial
Resistance Narratives 1. Yesterday's Mujahiddin: Gillo Pontecorvo's The
Battle of Algiers (1966) Nicholas Harrison 2. The Sound of Broken Memory:
Assia Djebar's The Nuba of the Women of Mount Chenoua (1977) Sarah E.
Mosher 3. Approximate Others: Peter Weir's The Last Wave (1977) Jerod
Ra'Del Hollyfield 4. Life as an Ocean: Hou Hsiao-hsien's The Puppetmaster
(1993) Stephen Spence Part II: Millennial Tropes of NeoEmpire 5. Shifting
Sands, Imaginary Space, and National Identity: Cédric Klapisch's Peut-être
(1999) Jehanne-Marie Gavarini 6. No Chains on Feet or Mind: Jean-Claude
Flamand Barny's Nèg Maron (2005) Meredith Robinson 7. A Cinema of
Conviviality: Ray Lawrence's Jindabyne (2006) Corinn Columpar 8. Déjà vu
All Over Again: Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg (2007) Cynthia Sugars Part III:
New Imaginations of Neo-Postcolonialism 9. Identity and The Politics of
Space: Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven (2007) Vuslat Demirkoparan 10. Space
and Cultural Memory: Te-Shen Wei's Cape No.7 (2008) Yu-wen Fu 11. The
Postcolonial Hybrid: Neill Blomkamp's District 9 (2009) Rebecca
Weaver-Hightower 12. The Marginal Interventionist Cinema of Budhan Theatre:
Dakxin Bajrange Chhara's The Lost Water (2008/2010) Henry Schwarz 13.
Afterword: History, Empire, Resistance Ella Shohat and Robert Stam