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

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.

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