Cinematic Settlers

". . . The collection produces an understanding of settler colonialism, and the film cultures it has produced . . . [with] remarkable depth and breadth that throws into fresh relief the politics – of place, of representation, of identity – that structure settler societies." - Corinn Columpar,University of Toronto, Canada

"Cinematic Settlers . . . is an essential text that spans multiple genres and historical periods to address urgent questions about the state of cinema and its role in cultivating a path beyond settlement." - Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield,Carson-Newman University, USA

"Settler colonialism is at the very core of modern global history. This wide-ranging collection reveals its huge impact on transnational film and popular culture." - Angela Woollacott, The Australian National University, Australia

"This collection . . . tackles difficult questions of how contemporary filmmakers grapple with Indigenous critiques and post-settlement politics in diverse ways . . . When representing diversity in film is such a pressing issue, this timely collection explores the deep histories and ambivalences of settler cinema." - Shino Konishi, University of Western Australia, Australia

"Situated at the intersection of film studies and settler colonial studies, Cinematic Settlers is an extremely valuable volume that reflects on settler colonialism as a multifaceted process that is, in fundamental ways, still ongoing and in which cinema has been, since its invention, centrally involved. With sixteen carefully considered and clearly written essays, the collection produces an understanding of settler colonialism, and the film cultures it has produced, that is grounded in historical and textual specificity on the one hand and expansive, indeed global, on the other. The result is a volume of remarkable depth and breadth that throws into fresh relief the politics – of place, of representation, of identity – that structure settler societies." - Corinn Columpar,University of Toronto, Canada

"Cinematic Settlers challenges the field of settler-colonial studies with its ambitious geographical breadth and redefines conceptions of world cinema by interrogating the settler structures that underpin the medium. It is an essential text that spans multiple genres and historical periods to address urgent questions about the state of cinema and its role in cultivating a path beyond settlement." - Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield,Carson-Newman University, USA

"Settler colonialism is at the very core of modern global history. This wide-ranging collection reveals its huge impact on transnational film and popular culture."- Angela Woollacott, The Australian National University, Australia

"This collection of essays on cinema from across the globe offers rich new insights on the distinct cultures settler colonialism produced by mirroring and affirming settler interests, perspectives and fantasies. The collection also tackles difficult questions of how contemporary filmmakers grapple with Indigenous critiques and post-settlement politics in diverse ways; from adopting multivocal perspectives to re-staging settler narratives in new imaginary frontiers. When representing diversity in film is such a pressing issue, this timely collection explores the deep histories and ambivalences of settler cinema." - Shino Konishi, University of Western Australia, Australia

"A thought-provoking and mind-expanding anthology, which is particularly welcome in an academic milieu still inclined to nationally bounded scholarship, yet also alert to the usefulness of both a global vision and a local focus. This book will be of value to a wide audience in a range of disciplines, including both students and academics in history, film studies, and cultural studies, and particularly to scholars of settler colonialism." - Karen Fox, The Journal of Pacific History