[Commlist] New Book: Exotic Cinema: Encounters with Cultural Difference in Contemporary Transnational Film

Daniela Berghahn is pleased to announce the publication of the book 
/Exotic Cinema: Encounters with Cultural Difference in Contemporary 
Transnational Film which has just been published by Edinburgh University 
Press.

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-exotic-cinema.html

*A critical reassessment of the aesthetic strategies and cultural value 
of exoticism in contemporary transnational cinemas*

  * Offers an original, critical reappraisal of decentred exoticism in
    contemporary transnational and world cinema
  * Includes eighteen case studies that are embedded in rich contextual
    detail and discussions of thematically similar films
  * Brings exoticism into dialogue with cognate frameworks that
    conceptualise cross-cultural encounters, including primitivism,
    Orientalism, cultural translation, cultural appropriation,
    cosmopolitanism and autoethnography, thereby shifting the terms of
    the debate into a direction that opens new lines of inquiry
  * Analyses examples of global art, Indigenous and popular mainstream
    cinema from East Asia, India, South America, Canada, Australia,
    Europe and the US
  * Comes with a companion website: www.exotic-cinema.org
    <http://www.exotic-cinema.org>

//

/Exotic Cinema/ is the first systematic analysis of decentred exoticism 
in contemporary transnational and world cinema. By critically examining 
regimes of visuality such as the imperial, the ethnographic and the 
exotic gaze, which have colonised our minds and ways of looking, Daniela 
Berghahn makes an important contribution to the urgent agenda of 
decolonising film studies.

Berghahn demonstrates that decentred exoticism’s aesthetic versatility 
and alluring alterity are uniquely relevant for understanding the 
transnational appeal of world cinema. She addresses prevalent 
controversies surrounding exoticism and illustrates that, in 
contemporary world cinema, it is utilised to draw attention to new 
ethical and socio-political goals. Global in scope and transnational in 
perspective, /Exotic Cinema/ invites students and researchers to 
reassess this prominent mode of cultural representation.

Edinburgh UP has also published a brief Q&A with the author, in which 
they discuss the latest monograph. You can read it here 
<https://euppublishingblog.com/2023/11/21/daniela-berghahn-on-exotic-cinema/>. 



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