De-Westernizing Film Studies aims to consider what form a challenge
to the enduring vision of film as a medium - and film studies as a
discipline - modelled on 'Western' ideologies, theoretical and
historical frameworks, critical perspectives as well as
institutional and artistic practices, might take today. The book
combines a range of scholarly writing with critical reflection from
filmmakers, artists & industry professionals, comprising
experience and knowledge from a wide range of geographical areas,
film cultures and (trans-)national perspectives. In their own ways,
the contributors to this volume problematize a binary mode of
thinking that continues to promote an idea of 'the West and the
rest' in relation to questions of production, distribution,
reception and representation within an artistic medium (cinema)
that, as part of contemporary moving image culture, is more
globalized and diversified than at any time in its history. In so
doing, De-Westernizing Film Studies complicates and/or re-thinks
how local, national and regional film cultures 'connect' globally,
seeking polycentric, multi-directional, non-essentialized
alternatives to Eurocentric theoretical and historical perspectives
found in film as both an artistic medium and an academic field of
study. The book combines a series of chapters considering a range
of responses to the idea of 'de-westernizing' film studies with a
series of in-depth interviews with filmmakers, scholars and
critics. Contributors: Nathan Abrams, John Akomfrah, Saer Maty Ba,
Mohammed Bakrim, Olivier Barlet, Yifen Beus, Farida Benlyazid,
Kuljit Bhamra, William Brown, Campbell, Jonnie Clementi-Smith,
Shahab Esfandiary, Coco Fusco, Patti Gaal-Holmes, Edward George,
Will Higbee, Katharina Lindner, Daniel Lindvall, Teddy E. Mattera,
Sheila Petty, Anna Piva, Deborah Shaw, Rod Stoneman, Kate E.
Taylor-Jones
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