Janne Lahti, Rebecca Weaver-Hightower

Cinematic Settlers (eBook, PDF)

The Settler Colonial World in Film

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This anthology adds to the burgeoning field of settler colonial studies by examining settler colonial narratives in the under analyzed medium of film.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000094237
• Artikelnr.: 59783571

Autorenporträt

Dr Janne Lahti is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow in History at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He specializes in global and transnational histories of settler colonialism, borderlands, American West, and Nordic colonialism. His books include German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World: Entangled Empires (2020), The American West and the World: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives (2019), and Wars for Empire: Apaches, the United States, and the Southwest Borderlands (2017).

Professor Rebecca Weaver-Hightower is Chair of English at North Dakota State University. Her publications include Frontier Fictions: Settler Sagas and Postcolonial Guilt (2018), Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals, and Fantasies of Conquest, (2007), Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance (2014, co-edited with Peter Hulme), and another collection on settler literatures Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space, and Race, (2018, co-edited with Yuting Huang).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Reel Settler Colonialism: Gazing, Reception, and Production
of Global Settler Cinemas Part I: Conquest 1. The South Pacific as the
Final Frontier: Hollywood's South Seas Fantasies, the Beachcomber, and
Militarization 2. Environments of Settler Colonialism in Statehood-Era U.S.
Cinematic Depictions of the Hawaiian Islands 3. Settler-Aboriginal Alliance
and the Threat of Foreign Invasion in Baz Luhrmann's Australia 4. Settler
Bolsheviks in the Soviet 'Eastern' Part II: Settlers 5. Gunless as Settler
Colonial Borderlands Fantasy 6. The Unbearable Settler West in The Ballad
of Buster Scruggs 7. Unser Haus in Kamerun: The Restauration of Settler
Colonial Memory in German Post-World War II Cinema 8. Negotiating Between
Homelands: Settler Colonial Situation and Settler Ambivalence in Taiwan
Cinema Part III: Natives 9. Hero or Dupe: Jay Swan and the Ambivalences of
Aboriginal Masculinity in the Films of Ivan Sen 10. In the Land of the Head
Hunters: Kwakwaka'wakw Archives and the Settler Colonial Lens 11.
Disrupting Settler Innocence in Latin American Films 12. The "Knack":
Post-settlement Cinema in Aotearoa New Zealand Part IV: Space 13.
Landscapes, Wildlife, and Grey Owl: Settler Colonial Imaginaries and
Tourist Spaces in William J. Oliver's Parks Branch Films, 1920s-1930s
14. From Colonial Casbah to Casbah-banlieue: Settlement and Space in Pépé
le Moko (1937) and La Haine (1996) 15. Between Sherwood Forest and the Red
Sea: Settler Colonial South Africa in early Hollywood 16. Settler Evasions
in Interstellar and Cowboys and Aliens: Thinking the End of the World is
Still Easier than Thinking the End of Settler Colonialism