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Zusatztext 'Highly Recommended. Documenting the continuing struggle between Western ideological dominance and alternative international filmmaking! Bâ and Higbee collect the work of a wide range of critical theorists! filmmakers! and scholars! who document the need for an alternative to conventional cinema history--a history that marginalizes much of the world's population! and the films produced outside the US and western Europe. Featuring some of the leading voices of transnational cinema! including Daniel Lindvall! Olivier Barlet! Coco Fusco! Kuljit Bhamra! Mohammed Bakrim! and many others! this collection effectively delineates the stranglehold of the Hollywood cinema on the West's collective consciousness.' -CHOICE! W. W. Dixon! University of Nebraska-Lincoln Informationen zum Autor Saër Maty Bâ is a temporary Lecturer Film Studies at Bangor University. Prior to joining Bangor! he had held fellowships at the universities of St Andrews! East London and Porstmouth. His research blurs boundaries between diaspora! film! media! and cultural studies. His articles! and book and film reviews have appeared in the journals Film International! Transnational Cinemas! Studies in Documentary Film Senses in Cinema! and Cultural Studies Review. He is co-editor with Will Higbee of the Journal of Media Practice/Special Issue: Re-presenting diaspora in cinema and new (digital) media (2010). Bâ is an associate editor! translator! contributor and editorial board member within The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration project (2012).Will Higbee is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Matthieu Kassovitz (2007) and the co-editor with Sarah Leahy of Studies in French Cinema: UK Perspectives 1985-2010 (2010) and with Saër Maty Bâ of a special edition of the Journal of Media Practice: 'Re-presenting Diaspora in Cinema and New (Digital) Media'. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Studies in French Cinema and has published various articles on contemporary French cinema! cinemas of the North African diaspora in France and questions of transnational cinemas in journals such as Transnational Cinemas! French Cultural Studies and Africultures. He is currently completing a monograph entitled Post-beur cinema: Maghrebi-French and North African émigré filmmaking in France since 2000. Klappentext De-Westernizing Film Studies is an edited collection bringing together international scholars and filmmakers with research expertise across a range of non-Western film cultures! but who have one shared aim: to challenge and offer alternatives to Eurocentric theoretical! historical perspectives in film studies. Zusammenfassung This edited collection brings together international scholars and filmmakers with research expertise across a range of non-Western film cultures, but who have one shared aim: to challenge and offer alternatives to Eurocentric theoretical, historical perspectives in film studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Graeme Harper Introduction: De-Westernizing Film Studies Part 1: (Dis-)continuities of the Cinematic Imaginary: (Non-)Representation, Discourse and Theory Chapter 1: Imagi[ni]ng the Universe: Cosmos, Otherness and Cinema Chapter 2: Questioning Discourses of diaspora: "Black" Cinema as Symptom Chapter 3: Affective Passions: The Dancing Female Body and Colonial Rupture in Zouzou (1934) and Karmen Geï (2001) Chapter 4: African Frameworks of Analysis for African Film Studies Part 2: Narrating the (Trans)Nation, Region and Community from Non-Western Perspectives Chapter 5: De-westernizing national cinema: re-imagined communities in the films of Férid Boughedir Chapter 6: Banal Transnationalism: On Makhmalbaf’s "Borderless" Filmmaking Chapter 7: Griots and Talanoa Speak: Storytelling as Theoretical Frames in African and Pacific Island Cinemas Chapter 8: The Intra-East...
