Postcolonial Cinema Studies
London; New York: Routledge (2012), xviii, 250 pp.
Contains illustrations, index
ISBN 978-0-415-78229-6 (pbk); 978-0-203-18147-8 (index)
"This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates in both cinema and postcolonial studies. Postcolonial cinema is presented, not as a rigid category, but as an optic through which to address questions of postcolonial historiography, geography, subjectivity, and epistemology. Current circumstances of migration and immigration, militarization, economic exploitation, racial and religious conflict, enactments of citizenship, and cultural self-representation have deep roots in colonial/postcolonial/neocolonial histories. Contributors deeply engage the tense asymmetries bequeathed to the contemporary world by the multiple, diverse, and overlapping histories of European, Soviet, U.S., and multi-national imperial ventures. With interdisciplinary expertise, they discover and explore the conceptual temporalities and spatialities of postcoloniality, with an emphasis on the politics of form, the 'postcolonial aesthetics' through which filmmakers challenge themselves and their viewers to move beyond national and imperial imaginaries." (Publisher description)
Introduction / Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller
PART I: CINEMAS OF EMPIRE, 17
1 Italian fascism's empire cinema: Kif Tebbi, the conquest of Libya, and the assault on the nomadic / Ruth Ben-Ghiat, 20
2 Blackface, faciality, and colony nostalgia in 1930s empire films / Julie Codell, 32
3 The socialist historical film / Anikó Imre, 47
PART II: POSTCOLONIAL CINEMAS: UNFRAMING HISTORIES, 61
4 From otherness "over there" to virtual presence: Camp de Thiaroye, The battle of Algiers, Hidden / Hamish Ford, 63
5 Fraught frames: Fatima, l'algérienne de Dakar and postcolonial quandaries / Jude G. Akudinobi, 78
6 Postcolonial relationalities in Philippe Faucon's Dans la vie / Mireille Rosello, 93
7 The postcolonial condition of "Indochinese" cinema from Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Laos / Mariam B. Lam, 107
PART III: POSTCOLONIAL CINEMAS: POSTCOLONIAL AESTHETICS, 127
8 Spectral postcoloniality: Lusophone postcolonial film and the imaginary of the nation / Paulo de Medeiros, 129
9 The aesthetics of postcolonial cinema in Raul Ruiz's Three crowns of the sailor / Sabine Doran, 143
10 The postcolonial circus: Maurizio Nichetti's Luna e l'altra / Marguerite Waller, 157
11 Postcolonial adaptations: gained and lost in translation / Sandra Ponzanesi, 172
PART IV: POSTCOLONIAL CINEMAS AND GLOBALIZATION, 189
12 Unpeople: postcolonial reflections on terror, torture, and detention in 'Children of men' / Shohini Chaudhuri, 191
13 Mira Nair's Monsoon wedding and the transcoded audiologic of postcolonial convergence / Kanika Batra and Rich Rice, 205
14 Nollywood in transit: the globalization of Nigerian video culture / Claudia Hoffmann, 218
15 Postface: an interview with Priya Jaikumar, 233
PART I: CINEMAS OF EMPIRE, 17
1 Italian fascism's empire cinema: Kif Tebbi, the conquest of Libya, and the assault on the nomadic / Ruth Ben-Ghiat, 20
2 Blackface, faciality, and colony nostalgia in 1930s empire films / Julie Codell, 32
3 The socialist historical film / Anikó Imre, 47
PART II: POSTCOLONIAL CINEMAS: UNFRAMING HISTORIES, 61
4 From otherness "over there" to virtual presence: Camp de Thiaroye, The battle of Algiers, Hidden / Hamish Ford, 63
5 Fraught frames: Fatima, l'algérienne de Dakar and postcolonial quandaries / Jude G. Akudinobi, 78
6 Postcolonial relationalities in Philippe Faucon's Dans la vie / Mireille Rosello, 93
7 The postcolonial condition of "Indochinese" cinema from Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Laos / Mariam B. Lam, 107
PART III: POSTCOLONIAL CINEMAS: POSTCOLONIAL AESTHETICS, 127
8 Spectral postcoloniality: Lusophone postcolonial film and the imaginary of the nation / Paulo de Medeiros, 129
9 The aesthetics of postcolonial cinema in Raul Ruiz's Three crowns of the sailor / Sabine Doran, 143
10 The postcolonial circus: Maurizio Nichetti's Luna e l'altra / Marguerite Waller, 157
11 Postcolonial adaptations: gained and lost in translation / Sandra Ponzanesi, 172
PART IV: POSTCOLONIAL CINEMAS AND GLOBALIZATION, 189
12 Unpeople: postcolonial reflections on terror, torture, and detention in 'Children of men' / Shohini Chaudhuri, 191
13 Mira Nair's Monsoon wedding and the transcoded audiologic of postcolonial convergence / Kanika Batra and Rich Rice, 205
14 Nollywood in transit: the globalization of Nigerian video culture / Claudia Hoffmann, 218
15 Postface: an interview with Priya Jaikumar, 233
