Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media / Edition 1

by Ella Shohat, Robert Stam, Brian Larkin, Julianne Burton-Carvajal

Overview

Reflecting the burgeoning academic interest in issues of nation, race, gender, sexuality, and other axes of identity, Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media brings all of these concerns under the same umbrella, contending that these issues must be discussed in relation to each other. Communities, societies, nations, and even entire continents, the book suggests, exist not autonomously but rather in a densely woven web of connectedness.

To explore this complexity, the editors have forged links between usually compartmentalized fields (especially media studies, literary theory, visual culture, and critical anthropology) and areas of inquiry-particularly postcolonial and diasporic studies and a diverse set of ethnic and area studies. This book, which links all these issues in suggestive ways, provides an indispensable guide for students and scholars in a wide variety of disciplines. Essays in this groundbreaking volume include Julianne Burton-Carvajal on ethnic identity in Lone Star; Manthia Diawara on diasporic documentary; Hamid Naficy on independent transnational film genres; Robyn Wiegman on whiteness studies; Faye Ginsburg on indigenous media; and Jennifer Gonzßles on race in cyberspace; Ana M. Lopez on modernity and Latin American cinema; and Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan on Warrior Marks and multiculturalism and globalization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813532356
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	03/04/2003
Series:	Rutgers Depth of Field Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Ella Shohat is a professor of cultural studies at New York University. Her books include Israeli Cinema, Dangerous Liaisons, and Talking Visions. Robert Stam has been named University Professor at New York University. He is the author of over ten books on film and cultural studies. Together, Shohat and Stam authored the award-winning Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ,   ,   ,   ,
Introduction ,   ,   ,   ,
  , Ella Shohat ,
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  , Robert Stam ,
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  , Fanon, Algeria, and the Cinema: The Politics of Identification ,
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  , Robert Stam ,
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  , Beur Cinema and the Politics of Location: French Immigration Politics and the Naming of a Film Movement ,
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  , Peter Bloom ,
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  , Dances With Wolves ,
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  , Edward D. Castillo ,
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  , Screen Memories and Entangled Technologies: Resignifying Indigenous Lives ,
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  , Faye Ginsburg ,
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  , &‘grave;Train of Shadows'': Early Cinema and Modernity in Latin America ,
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  , Ana M. Lopez ,
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  , Oedipus Tex/Oedipus Mex: Triangulations of Paternity, Race, and Nation in John Sayles's Lone Star ,
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  , Julianne Burton-Carvajal ,
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  , Emigrants Twice Displaced: Race, Color, and Identity in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala ,
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  , Binita Mehta ,
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  , Itineraries of Indian Cinema: African Videos, Bollywood, and Global Media ,
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  , Brian Larkin ,
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  , The &‘grave;I'' Narrator in Black Diaspora Documentary ,
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  , Manthia Diawara ,
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  , Phobic Spaces and Liminal Panics: Independent Transnational Film Genre ,
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  , Hamid Naficy ,
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  , &‘grave;My Name is Forrest, Forrest Gump'': Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity ,
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  , Robyn Wiegman ,
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  , Warrior Marks: Global Womanism's Neo-Colonial Discourse in a Multicultural Context ,
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  , Inderpal Grewal ,
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  , Caren Kaplan ,
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  , Multiculturalism, Dictatorship, and Cinema Vanguards: Philippine and Brazilian Analogies ,
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  , Talitha Espiritu ,
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  , The Appended Subject: Race and Identity as Digital Assemblage ,
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  , Jennifer Gonzalez ,
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Contributors ,   ,   ,   ,
Index ,   ,   ,