| Visual «Difference»: Postcolonial Studies and Intercultural Cinema Contributor(s): Beaver, Frank (Editor), Heffelfinger, Elizabeth (Author), Wright, Laura (Author) |
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ISBN: 1433105950 ISBN-13: 9781433105951 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $46.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Performing Arts | Film - General - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 302.234 |
| LCCN: 2010014245 |
| Series: Framing Film: The History and Art of Cinema |
| Physical Information: 208 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: To date, no text exists that focuses exclusively on the concept of postcolonial film as a framework for identifying films produced within and outside of various formerly colonized nations, nor is there a scholarly text that addresses pedagogical issues about and frameworks for teaching such films. This book borrows from and respects various forms of categorization - intercultural, global, third, and accented - while simultaneously seeking to make manifest an alternate space of signification. What feels like a mainstream approach is pedagogically necessary in terms of access, both financial and physical, to the films discussed herein, given that this text proposes models for teaching these works at the university and secondary levels. The focus of this work is therefore twofold: to provide the methodology to read and teach postcolonial film, and also to provide analyses in which scholars and teachers can explore the ways that the films examined herein work to further and complicate our understanding of postcolonial as a fraught and evolving theoretical stance. |