Film, History and Cultural Citizenship: Sites of Production

by Tina Mai Chen (Editor), David S. Churchill (Editor)

Overview

This new book investigates the relationship of film to history, power, memory, and cultural citizenship. The book is concerned with two central issues: firstly, the participation of film and filmmakers in articulating and challenging projects of modernity; and, secondly, the role of film in shaping particular understandings of self and other to evoke collective notions of belonging. These issues call for interdisciplinary and multi-layered analyses that are ideally met through dialogue across place, time, identities and genres. The contributors to this volume enable this dialogue by considering the ways in which cultural expression and identity expressed through film serve to create notions of belonging, group identity, and entitlement within modern societies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415514644
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/09/2011
Series:	Routledge Studies in Cultural History
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tina Mae Chen is Associate Professor of History at the University of Manitoba, Canada, and co-ordinator of the Interdisciplinary Research Circle on Globalization and Cosmopolitanism.

David S. Churchill is Assistant Professor of US History at the University of Manitoba, Canada, and co-ordinator of the Interdisciplinary Research Circle on Globalization and Cosmopolitanism.

 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements,

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1. Film, History, and Cultural Citizenship: An Introduction
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, Tina Mai Chen and David S. Churchill , Section I: Producing National and Transnational Imaginaries,

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1. Negotiating Mobile Subjectivities: Costume Play, Landscape, and Belonging in the Colonial Road Movies of Shimizu Hiroshi
, Sharon Hayashi ,
2. Moore’s Utopia: Canada in the Cinematic Imagination of Michael Moore
, David S. Churchill ,
3. Seeing Beneath the Veil: Saira Shah and the Problems of Documentary
, Nima Naghibi ,
4. Textual Communities and Localized Practices of Film in Maoist China
, Tina Mai Chen ,
5. Transnational Communities of Affinity: Patricio Guzmán’s The Pinochet Case
, Macarena Gómez-Barris , Section II: Historical Feeling in the Sites of Production
6. Moving Intimacy: The Betrayals of a Mother called Yesterday, a Child called Beauty and a Father called John Khumalo
, Neville Hoad ,
7. Queer Grit: Jane West Rides Through the Violence of the Hollywood Western
, Roewan Crowe ,
8. Violence, Gender, and Community in Atanarjuat
, Peter Kulchyski ,
9. Memory, Affect, and Personal Modernity: Now, Voyager and the Second World War
, Brenda Austin-Smith , Section III: The Culture of Film and the Production of History
10. Alterity, Activism, and the Articulation of Gendered Cinemascapes in Canadian Indian Country
, Kathleen Buddle,
11. The Battle of Algiers: Pentagon Edition
, John Mowitt,
12. Jacob the Liar and Historical Truth in Berlin and Hollywood
, Cheryl Dueck,
13. Abderrahmane Sissako: Les Lieux Provisoires of Transnational Cinema
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, Michelle Stewart, Contributors