Postcolonial cinema studies / edited by Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller.

Contents Introduction / Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller -- pt. I: Cinemas of empire. Introduction to part I / Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller -- Italian fascism's empire cinema: Kif Tebbi, the conquest of Libya, and the assault on the nomadic / Ruth Ben-Ghiat -- Blackface, faciality, and colony nostalgia in 1930s empire films / Julie Codell -- The socialist historical film / Anikó Imre -- pt. II: Postcolonial cinemas: unframing histories. Introduction to part II / Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller -- From otherness "over there" to virtual presence: Camp de Thiaroye, The battle of Algiers, Hidden / Hamish Ford -- Fraught frames: Fatima, l'algérienne de Dakar and postcolonial quandaries / Jude G. Akudinobi -- Postcolonial relationalities in Philippe Faucon's Dans la vie / Mireille Rosello -- The postcolonial condition of "Indochinese" cinema from Việt Nam, Cambodia, and Laos / Mariam B. Lam -- pt. III: Postcolonial cinemas: postcolonial aesthetics. Introduction to part III / Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller -- Spectral postcoloniality: Lusophone postcolonial film and the imaginary of the nation / Paulo de Medeiros -- The aesthetics of postcolonial cinema in Raul Ruiz's Three crowns of the sailor / Sabine Doran -- The postcolonial circus: Maurizio Nichetti's Luna e l'altra / Marguerite Waller -- Postcolonial adaptations: gained and lost in translation / Sandra Ponzanesi -- pt. IV: Postcolonial cinemas and globalization. Introduction to part IV / Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller -- Unpeople: postcolonial reflections on terror, torture, and detention in Children of men / Shohini Chaudhuri -- Mira Nair's Monsoon wedding and the transcoded audiologic of postcolonial convergence / Kanika Batra and Rich Rice -- Nollywood in transit: the globalization of Nigerian video culture / Claudia Hoffmann -- Postface: an interview with Priya Jaikumar.
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