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De-Westernizing Film Studies

Will Higbee editor Saer Maty Ba editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:28th Jun '12

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De-Westernizing Film Studies aims to consider what form a challenge to the enduring vision of film as a medium - and film studies as a discipline - modelled on ‘Western’ ideologies, theoretical and historical frameworks, critical perspectives as well as institutional and artistic practices, might take today. The book combines a range of scholarly writing with critical reflection from filmmakers, artists & industry professionals, comprising experience and knowledge from a wide range of geographical areas, film cultures and (trans-)national perspectives. In their own ways, the contributors to this volume problematize a binary mode of thinking that continues to promote an idea of ‘the West and the rest’ in relation to questions of production, distribution, reception and representation within an artistic medium (cinema) that, as part of contemporary moving image culture, is more globalized and diversified than at any time in its history. In so doing, De-Westernizing Film Studies complicates and/or re-thinks how local, national and regional film cultures ‘connect’ globally, seeking polycentric, multi-directional, non-essentialized alternatives to Eurocentric theoretical and historical perspectives found in film as both an artistic medium and an academic field of study.

The book combines a series of chapters considering a range of responses to the idea of 'de-westernizing' film studies with a series of in-depth interviews with filmmakers, scholars and critics.

Contributors: Nathan Abrams, John Akomfrah, Saër Maty Bâ, Mohammed Bakrim, Olivier Barlet, Yifen Beus, Farida Benlyazid, Kuljit Bhamra, William Brown, Campbell, Jonnie Clementi-Smith, Shahab Esfandiary, Coco Fusco, Patti Gaal-Holmes, Edward George, Will Higbee, Katharina Lindner, Daniel Lindvall, Teddy E. Mattera, Sheila Petty, Anna Piva, Deborah Shaw, Rod Stoneman, Kate E. Taylor-Jones

'Highly Recommended. Documenting the continuing struggle between Western ideological dominance and alternative international filmmaking, Bâ and Higbee collect the work of a wide range of critical theorists, filmmakers, and scholars, who document the need for an alternative to conventional cinema history--a history that marginalizes much of the world's population, and the films produced outside the US and western Europe. Featuring some of the leading voices of transnational cinema, including Daniel Lindvall, Olivier Barlet, Coco Fusco, Kuljit Bhamra, Mohammed Bakrim, and many others, this collection effectively delineates the stranglehold of the Hollywood cinema on the West's collective consciousness.'–CHOICE, W. W. Dixon, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

ISBN: 9780415687843

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

280 pages