Postcolonial Cinema Studies
Postcolonial Cinema Studies by Sandra Ponzanesi, published by Routledge in 2012, is a collection of essays that examines the intersection of cinema and postcolonial theory. This edition spans 250 pages and is presented in English. The essays included in this volume explore how filmmakers theorize and compare postcolonial conditions, offering insights into the complexities of postcolonial historiography, geography, and subjectivity.
Readers will find a diverse range of contributions that address contemporary issues such as migration, economic exploitation, and cultural self-representation, all rooted in colonial and postcolonial histories. The contributors engage with the intricate legacies of various imperial ventures and investigate the politics of form and aesthetics in postcolonial cinema. This scholarly work encourages a deeper understanding of how filmmakers challenge traditional narratives and invite viewers to reconsider national and imperial perspectives.
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This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates in both cinema and postcolonial studies. Postcolonial cinema is presented, not as a rigid category, but as an optic through which to address questions of postcolonial historiography, geography, subjectivity, and epistemology.
Current circumstances of migration and immigration, militarization, economic exploitation, racial and religious conflict, enactments of citizenship, and cultural self-representation have deep roots in colonial/postcolonial/neocolonial histories. Contributors deeply engage the tense asymmetries bequeathed to the contemporary world by the multiple,diverse, and overlapping histories of European, Soviet, U.S., and multi-national imperial ventures. With interdisciplinary expertise, they discover and explore the conceptual temporalities and spatialities of postcoloniality, with an emphasis on the politics of form, the ‘postcolonial aesthetics’ through which filmmakers challenge themselves and their viewers to move beyond national and imperial imaginaries.
Contributors include: Jude G. Akudinobi, Kanika Batra, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Shohini Chaudhuri, Julie F. Codell, Sabine Doran, Hamish Ford, Claudia Hoffmann, Anikó Imre, Priya Jaikumar, Mariam B. Lam, Paulo de Medeiros, Sandra Ponzanesi, Richard Rice, Mireille Rosello and Marguerite Waller.
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