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[ecrea] NEW BOOK: 'De-Westernizing Film Studies'

Wed Jul 04 06:41:31 GMT 2012



Its aim is to announce the publication of:

/*De-Westernizing Film Studies*/, eds. Saër Maty Bâ and Will Higbee, Routledge: June 2012

Please find below a brief description of the book, followed by a selected table of contents and the list of contributors.
With thanks and all best wishes,
Saër Maty Bâ and Will Higbee


*DE-WESTERNIZINGFILM STUDIES *considers 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, and 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 rethinks 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 anartistic medium and an academic field of study.

*TABLE OF CONTENTS*

Foreword by

PROFESSOR GRAEME HARPER

Introduction: de-Westernizing film studies

SAËRMATY BÂ AND WILL HIGBEE

PART I

(Dis-)Continuities of the cinematic imaginary: (non-)representation, discourse, and theory

PART II

Narrating the (trans)nation, region, and community from non-Western perspectives

PART III

New (dis-)continuities from "within" the West

PART IV

Interviews

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

http://www.amazon.co.uk/De-Westernizing-Film-Studies-Saer-Maty/dp/0415687845


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