John Mowitt
Re-takes: Postcoloniality and Foreign Film Languages
- ISBN 13:
- 9780816628919
- author:
- John Mowitt
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2005
- Pages:
- 246
- Dimensions:
- 22.96 x 15.34 x 1.3 centimetres
- Genre:
- Arts & Photography, Performing Arts, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Re-takes: A Critical Re-examination of Postcoloniality and Foreign Film Languages By John Mowitt, published by University of Minnesota Press in 2005. This volume challenges the dominant perspectives in film studies by exploring the complexities of postcoloniality, national identity, ideology, and filmmaking. The author argues that Eurocentrism underpins both the concept of foreign language films and the flawed initiative of multiculturalism. Mowitt proposes a new approach to film studies, one that moves beyond linguistics and psychoanalysis to examine the global networks of cultural communication. Through close readings of bilingual films by Senegalese filmmaker Sembene Ousmane and Bolivian filmmaker Jorge Sanjines, Mowitt reveals the poetics and politics of postcoloniality in the global cinematic field. This provocative intervention challenges film studies to reconsider its analytical distinctions and position within globalization. By examining the implications of bilingual films for our understanding of cultural forms, Re-takes offers a nuanced critique of the changing nature of film and media studies.
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