Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film

ISBN-13: 9780367229986 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 218 str.

Janne Lahti; Rebecca Weaver-Hightower

Opis

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

Spis treści

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