Indianizing Film - Decolonization, the Andes, and the Question of Technology

Informationen zum Autor Schiwy, Freya Klappentext  Latin American indigenous media production has recently experienced a noticeable boom, specifically in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia. Indianizing Film zooms in on a selection of award-winning and widely influential fiction and docudrama shorts, analyzing them in the wider context of indigenous media practices and debates over decolonizing knowledge. Within this framework, Freya Schiwy approaches questions of gender, power, and representation. Zusammenfassung Latin American indigenous media production has recently experienced a noticeable boom! specifically in Bolivia! Ecuador! and Colombia. This title encourages readers to consider how indigenous media contributes to a wider understanding of decolonization and anticolonial study against the universal backdrop of the twenty-first century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments — vii Introduction — The Question of Technology — 1 1 Indigenous Media and the Politics of Knowledge — 33 2 Casting New Protagonists — 63 3 Cinematic Time and Visual Economy — 85 4 Gender, Complementarity, and the Anticolonial Gaze — 109 5 Nature, Indians, and Epistemic Privilege — 139 6 Specters and Braided Stories — 163 7 Indigenous Media and the Market — 185 Afterword — 212 Notes — 223 Bibliography — 249 Filmography — 267 Index — 273

Product details

• Authors: Freya Schiwy
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.04.2009
• EAN: 9780813545400
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-4540-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: New Directions in Internationa; New Directions in International Studies; New Directions in Internationa
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries