Exploring several dimensions of the problem of "film languages,"
this volume engages the complications inherent in the study of the
"other" and investigates the intricate relationship between
postcoloniality, national identity, ideology, and filmmaking.
Author John Mowitt establishes how Eurocentrism sustains both the
concept of the foreign language film and the flawed initiative of
multiculturalism. Using bilingualism and the concept of foreign
film language, Re-takes pushes film studies beyond both linguistics
and psychoanalysis to resituate is within the networks of global
cultural communication. Through close readings of the bilingual
films of Senegalese filmmaker Sembene Ousmane and Bolivian
filmmaker Jorge Sanjines, Mowitt articulates the poetics and
politics of postcoloniality in the global cinematic field, and
challenges film studies to reflect on the relation between its
organizing analytical distinctions - national and foreign, textual
and institutional - and its position within globalization.
Examining how elements involved in bilingual films have
implications for the way academic intellectuals classify and
misappropriate cultural forms, Re-takes is a provocative
intervention into ongoing discussions of the changing nature of
film and media studies.
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