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  • Film and Counterculture in the 2011 Egyptian Uprising

    by Amir Taha ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines how film articulates countercultural flows in the context of the Egyptian Revolution. The book interrogates the gap between radical politics and radical aesthetics by analyzing counterculture as a form, drawing upon Egyptian films produced between 2010 and 2016. The work offers a definition of counterculture which liberates the term from its Western frame and establishes a ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Cinemas of the Global South

    Towards a Southern Aesthetics

    Edited by Dilip M Menon, Amir Taha ...
    This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation; and as an arena of virtuality, creativity and change. It opens up a dialogue amongst scholars and filmmakers from the Global South: India, Nigeria, Colombia, Brazil, South Africa, and Egypt.The essays in the volume approach cinema as an intertwined process of both ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • The Migrant Image

    The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis

    by T. J. Demos ...
    In The Migrant Image T. J. Demos examines the ways contemporary artists have reinvented documentary practices in their representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless, and the politically dispossessed. He presents a sophisticated analysis of how artists from the United States, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East depict the often ignored effects of globalization and the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Cinema of Me

    The Self and Subjectivity in First Person Documentary

    Edited by Alisa Lebow ...
    Series series Nonfictions
    When a filmmaker makes a film with herself as a subject, she is already divided as both the subject matter of the film and the subject making the film. The two senses of the word are immediately in play – the matter and the maker—thus the two ways of being subjectified as both subject and object. Subjectivity finds its filmic expression, not surprisingly, in very personal ways, yet it is ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Hindi Cinema

    Repeating the Subject

    by Nandini Bhattacharya ...
    Series series Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
    Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code that is problematic when representing the national and cinematic subject. It reflects on the cinema as motivated by an ongoing crisis of self-formation in modern India.The book looks at how ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Postcolonial Cinema Studies

    Edited by Sandra Ponzanesi, Marguerite Waller ...
    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 ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Storytelling in World Cinemas

    Forms

    Edited by Lina Khatib ...
    Storytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 1: Forms is an innovative collection of essays that discuss how different cinemas of the world tell stories. The book locates European, Asian, African, and Latin American films within their wider cultural and artistic frameworks, showing how storytelling forms in cinema are infused with influences from other artistic, literary, and oral traditions. This volume ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Storytelling in World Cinemas

    Contexts

    by Lina Khatib ...
    Storytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 2: Contexts addresses the questions of what and why particular stories are told in films around the world, both in terms of the forms of storytelling used, and of the political, religious, historical, and social contexts informing cinematic storytelling. Drawing on films from all five continents, the book approaches storytelling from a cultural/historical ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives

    Violence and Violation

    Edited by Sorcha Gunne, Zoe Brigley Thompson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    The essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir, or drama. In developing these new feminist readings of rape narratives, the contributors aim to incorporate arguments about trauma and resistance in order to establish new dimensions of healing. This book makes a vital contribution ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Holy Mountain

    by Alessandra Santos ...
    Series series Cultographies
    Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo helped inaugurate the midnight movie phenomenon. Its success spawned The Holy Mountain, through interventions by John Lennon and Allen Klein. After a scandalous release and a 16-month midnight career, The Holy Mountain was relegated to the underground world of fan bootlegs for over thirty years until its limited restored release in 2007. This short study reveals how ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Mapping World Anglophone Studies

    English in a World of Strangers

    Edited by Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Frank Schulze-Engler ...
    Series series Transdisciplinary Souths
    This book explores core issues in the emerging field of World Anglophone Studies. It shows that traditional frameworks based on the colonial and imperial legacies of English need to be revised and extended to understand the complex adaptations, iterations, and incarnations of English in the contemporary world.The chapters in this volume make three significant interventions in the field:First, they ... Read more

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  • Ritual and Event

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Mark Franko ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Ritual today can be encountered in the midst of catastrophic and transforming events. This collection reassesses and revises traditionally understood relationships between ritual and politics, ritual and everyday life, ritual and art making, and ritual and disaster. The methodologies as well as the subject matter are interdisciplinary: they range from the anthropological to the art and dance ... Read more

    $80.99 USD