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      Postcolonial Film book

      History, Empire, Resistance

      Postcolonial Film

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      Postcolonial Film book

      History, Empire, Resistance
      Edited ByRebecca Weaver-Hightower, Peter Hulme
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2014
      eBook Published 13 March 2014
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315880068
      Pages 326
      eBook ISBN 9781315880068
      Subjects Development Studies, Environment, Social Work, Urban Studies, Humanities, Language & Literature, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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      Weaver-Hightower, R., & Hulme, P. (Eds.). (2014). Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315880068

      ABSTRACT

      Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance examines films of the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries from postcolonial countries around the globe. In the mid twentieth century, the political reality of resistance and decolonization lead to the creation of dozens of new states, forming a backdrop to films of that period. Towards the century’s end and at the dawn of the new millennium, film continues to form a site for interrogating colonization and decolonization, though against a backdrop that is now more neo-colonial than colonial and more culturally imperial than imperial. This volume explores how individual films emerged from and commented on postcolonial spaces and the building and breaking down of the European empire. Each chapter is a case study examining how a particular film from a postcolonial nation emerges from and reflects that nation’s unique postcolonial situation. This analysis of one nation’s struggle with its coloniality allows each essay to investigate just what it means to be postcolonial.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |20 pages

      Introduction: New Perspectives on Postcolonial Film

      part |2 pages

      PART I New Readings of Twentieth-Century Anti-colonial Resistance Narratives

      chapter 1|24 pages

      Yesterday’s Mujahiddin: Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers (1966)

      chapter 2|16 pages

      The Sound of Broken Memory: Assia Djebar’s The Nuba of the Women of Mount Chenoua (1977)

      chapter 3|24 pages

      Approximate Others: Peter Weir’s The Last Wave (1977)

      ByJEROD RA’DEL HOLLYFIELD

      chapter 4|26 pages

      Life as an Ocean: Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Puppetmaster (1993)

      part |2 pages

      PART II Millennial Tropes of Neo-empire

      chapter 5|22 pages

      Shifting Sands, Imaginary Space, and National Identity: Cédric Klapisch’s Peut-être (1999)

      chapter 6|17 pages

      No Chains on Feet or Mind: Jean-Claude Flamand Barny’s Nèg Maron (2005)

      chapter 7|17 pages

      A Cinema of Conviviality: Ray Lawrence’s Jindabyne (2006)

      chapter 8|28 pages

      Déjà Vu All Over Again: Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg (2007)

      ByCYNTHIA SUGARS

      part |2 pages

      PART III New Imaginations of Neo-postcolonialism

      chapter 9|22 pages

      Identity and the Politics of Space: Fatih Akın’s The Edge of Heaven (2007)

      chapter 10|24 pages

      Space and Cultural Memory: Te-Sheng Wei’s Cape No.7 (2008)

      chapter 11|20 pages

      REBECCA WEAVER-HIGHTOWER

      chapter 12|15 pages

      The Marginal Interventionist Cinema of Budhan Theatre: Dakxin Bajrange Chhara’s The Lost Water (2010)

      chapter 13|19 pages

      Afterword: History, Empire, Resistance

      ByROBERT STAM, ELLA SHOHAT
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