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Film, History and Cultural Citizenship: Sites of Production book cover

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

250 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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

  2. Moore’s Utopia: Canada in the Cinematic Imagination of Michael Moore

    3. David S. Churchill

  3. Seeing Beneath the Veil: Saira Shah and the Problems of Documentary

    4. Nima Naghibi

  4. Textual Communities and Localized Practices of Film in Maoist China

    5. Tina Mai Chen

  5. Transnational Communities of Affinity: Patricio Guzmán’s The Pinochet Case

    6. 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

    7. Neville Hoad

  7. Queer Grit: Jane West Rides Through the Violence of the Hollywood Western

    8. Roewan Crowe

  8. Violence, Gender, and Community in Atanarjuat

    9. Peter Kulchyski

  9. Memory, Affect, and Personal Modernity: Now, Voyager and the Second World War

    10. 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

    11. Kathleen Buddle

  11. The Battle of Algiers: Pentagon Edition

    12. John Mowitt

  12. Jacob the Liar and Historical Truth in Berlin and Hollywood

    13. Cheryl Dueck

  13. 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.

 

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