Visual «difference»

Postcolonial Studies and Intercultural Cinema

Elizabeth Heffelfinger, Laura Wright

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9781433105951
• eBook ISBN: 9781453900550
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

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.

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments vii
• Introduction 1
• One 21
• Two 42
• Three 72
• Four 98
• Five 126
• Six 150
• Conclusion 174
• Bibliography 189
• Index 203