De-Westernizing Film Studies (Hardcover)

Foreword: Graeme Harper  Introduction: De-Westernizing Film Studies  Part 1: (Dis-)continuities of the Cinematic Imaginary: (Non-)Representation, Discourse and Theory  Chapter 1: Imagi[ni]ng the Universe: Cosmos, Otherness and Cinema   Chapter 2: Questioning Discourses of diaspora: "Black" Cinema as Symptom  Chapter 3: Affective Passions: The Dancing Female Body and Colonial Rupture in Zouzou (1934) and Karmen Gei (2001)  Chapter 4: African Frameworks of Analysis for African Film Studies  Part 2: Narrating the (Trans)Nation, Region and Community from Non-Western Perspectives  Chapter 5: De-westernizing national cinema: re-imagined communities in the films of Ferid Boughedir  Chapter 6: Banal Transnationalism: On Makhmalbaf’s "Borderless" Filmmaking  Chapter 7: Griots and Talanoa Speak: Storytelling as Theoretical Frames in African and Pacific Island Cinemas  Chapter 8: The Intra-East Cinema: the re-framing of an East Asian Film Sphere  Part 3: New (dis-)continuities from ‘within’ the West  Chapter 9: "A double set of glasses": Stanley Kubrick and the Midrashic Mode of Interpretation  Chapter 10: Situated Bodies, Cinematic Orientations: Film and (Queer) Phenomenology  Chapter 11 Has film ever been Western? Continuity and the question of building a "common" cinema  Part 4: interviews  Editors’ note on interviews  Chapter 12: "There is No Entirely Non-Western Place Left ": De-Westernizing the moving image, an interview with Coco Fusco  Chapter 13: De-Westernizing Film through Experimental Practice: an interview with Patti Gaal-Holmes  Chapter 14: "With Our Own Pen and Papers": an interview with Teddy E. Mattera  Chapter 15: "To Colonize a Subject Matter is to Learn Nothing from it": an interview with Jonnie Clementi-Smith  Chapter 16: "Isn’t It Strange that ‘World’ means Everything Outside the West?": an interview with Rod Stoneman  Chapter 17: Beyond Stereotypes and Preconceptions: an interview with Farida Benlyazid  Chapter 18: "About Structure, Not about Individual Instances": an interview with Daniel Lindvall  Chapter 19: "Still Waiting for a Reciprocal De-Westernization": an interview with Mohammed Bakrim  Chapter 20: "Moving Away from a Sense of Cultures as Pure Spaces ": an interview with Deborah Shaw  Chapter 21: Nu Third Queer Cinema: an interview with Campbell X  Chapter 22: "To Start with a Blank Slate of Free Choices": an interview with Kuljit Bhamra  Chapter 23: "The Crazy Dream of living without the Other": an interview with Olivier Barlet  Chapter 24: "De-Westernizing as Double Move": an interview with John Akomfrah