Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance

ISBN-13: 9781138548497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 328 str.

Rebecca Weaver-Hightower; Peter Hulme

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.