Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance (Routledge Advances in Film Studies #30)

By: Peter Hulme and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 316 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781134747344
Related ISBNs:: 9780415716147, 9781138548497, 9781315880068
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 05/10/23
Copyrighted By:: Taylor and Francis
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
Edited by:: Peter Hulme