Film, History and Cultural Citizenship: Sites of Production

by Chen; Tina Mai

• ISBN13: 9780415771177
• ISBN10: 041577117X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

P 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. /P

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Film, History, and Cultural Citizenship

An Introduction

Section I: Producing National and Transnational Imaginaries

Negotiating Mobile Subjectivities: Costume Play, Landscape, and Belonging in the Colonial Road Movies of

Sharon Hayashi Moore's Utopia: Canada in the Cinematic Imagination of

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

Textual Communities and Localized Practices of Film in Maoist China

Transnational Communities of Affinity: Patricio Guzman's The Pinochet Case

Section II: Historical Feeling in the Sites of Production Moving Intimacy

The Betrayals of a Mother called "Yesterday," a Child called "Beauty" and a Father called

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

Violence, Gender, and Community in Atanarjuat

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

Section III: The Culture of Film and the Production of History Alterity, Activism, and the Articulation of Gendered

Cinemascapes in Canadian Indian Country Kathleen Buddle The Battle of Algiers: Pentagon Edition

Jacob the Liar and Historical Truth in Berlin and Hollywood Cheryl Dueck

Les Lieux Provisoires of Transnational Cinema

Contributors

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