1st Edition

Film, History and Cultural Citizenship Sites of Production

Edited By Tina Mai Chen, David S. Churchill Copyright 2008
    250 Pages
    by Routledge

    250 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Acknowledgements

    1. Film, History, and Cultural Citizenship: An Introduction

             Tina Mai Chen and David S. Churchill

    Section I: Producing National and Transnational Imaginaries

    1. Negotiating Mobile Subjectivities: Costume Play, Landscape, and Belonging in the Colonial Road Movies of Shimizu Hiroshi
    2. Sharon Hayashi

    3. Moore’s Utopia: Canada in the Cinematic Imagination of Michael Moore
    4. David S. Churchill

    5. Seeing Beneath the Veil: Saira Shah and the Problems of Documentary
    6. Nima Naghibi

    7. Textual Communities and Localized Practices of Film in Maoist China
    8. Tina Mai Chen

    9. Transnational Communities of Affinity: Patricio Guzmán’s The Pinochet Case
    10. Macarena Gómez-Barris

      Section II: Historical Feeling in the Sites of Production

    11. Moving Intimacy: The Betrayals of a Mother called "Yesterday," a Child called "Beauty" and a Father called John Khumalo
    12. Neville Hoad

    13. Queer Grit: Jane West Rides Through the Violence of the Hollywood Western
    14. Roewan Crowe

    15. Violence, Gender, and Community in Atanarjuat
    16. Peter Kulchyski

    17. Memory, Affect, and Personal Modernity: Now, Voyager and the Second World War
    18. Brenda Austin-Smith

      Section III: The Culture of Film and the Production of History

    19. Alterity, Activism, and the Articulation of Gendered Cinemascapes in Canadian Indian Country
    20. Kathleen Buddle

    21. The Battle of Algiers: Pentagon Edition
    22. John Mowitt

    23. Jacob the Liar and Historical Truth in Berlin and Hollywood
    24. Cheryl Dueck

    25. Abderrahmane Sissako: Les Lieux Provisoires of Transnational Cinema

    Michelle Stewart

    Contributors

    Biography

    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.