Marguerite Waller, Sandra Ponzanesi
Postcolonial Cinema Studies
- ISBN 13:
- 9780415782296
- author:
- Marguerite Waller, Sandra Ponzanesi
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Routledge
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2011
- Pages:
- 272
- Dimensions:
- 23 x 15.4 x 1.8 cm
- Genre:
- Data Analysis Study Guide
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Postcolonial Cinema Studies explores the intersection of film and postcolonial studies, offering a nuanced understanding of the complex relationships between cinema, history, geography, subjectivity, and epistemology. By examining the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, this collection sheds light on the ongoing legacies of colonialism and imperialism. The contributors to this volume bring diverse expertise to bear on the politics of form and aesthetics in postcolonial cinema, revealing how filmmakers challenge their viewers to move beyond national and imperial imaginaries. Through a range of perspectives and approaches, they uncover the conceptual temporalities and spatialities of postcoloniality, shedding new light on the complex histories of migration, militarization, economic exploitation, and cultural self-representation. This collection provides a rich and interdisciplinary exploration of postcolonial cinema studies, one that is both theoretically rigorous and practically relevant to our understanding of the contemporary world.
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