Postcolonial film: history, empire, resistance
"Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance examines films of the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries from postcolonial countries around the globe. In the mid twentieth century, the political reality of resistance and decolonization lead to the creation of dozens of new states,...
| Published in: | Routledge advances in film studies |
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| Contributors: | ; |
| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York London
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2014
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| In: |
Routledge advances in film studies (30)
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| Series/Journal: | Routledge advances in film studies
30 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Film
/ Postcolonialism (Motif)
/ Colonialism
/ Postcolonialism
/ History 1966-2010
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Politics in motion pictures B Social Science Media Studies B Motion Pictures Political aspects B Nationalism in motion pictures B Political Science Colonialism & Post-Colonialism B Imperialism in motion pictures B Species Film & Video |
| Summary: | "Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance examines films of the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries from postcolonial countries around the globe. In the mid twentieth century, the political reality of resistance and decolonization lead to the creation of dozens of new states, forming a backdrop to films of that period. Towards the century's end and at the dawn of the new millennium, film continues to form a site for interrogating colonization and decolonization, though against a backdrop that is now more neo-colonial than colonial and more culturally imperial than imperial. This volume explores how individual films emerged from and commented on postcolonial spaces and the building and breaking down of the European empire. Each chapter is a case study examining how a particular film from a postcolonial nation emerges from and reflects that nation's unique postcolonial situation. This analysis of one nation's struggle with its coloniality allows each essay to investigate just what it means to be postcolonial."-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0415716144 |