Freya Schiwy

Indianizing Film

Decolonization, the Andes, and the Question of Technology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

 Latin American indigenous media production has recently experienced a noticeable boom, specifically in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia.  Indianizing Film zooms in on a selection of award-winning and widely influential fiction and docudrama shorts, analyzing them in the wider context of indigenous media practices and debates over decolonizing knowledge. Within this framework, Freya Schiwy approaches questions of gender, power, and representation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780813545400
• ISBN-10: 0813545404
• Artikelnr.: 25855998

Autorenporträt

FREYA SCHIWY is an assistant professor in the media and cultural studies and Hispanic studies departments at the University of California, Riverside.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments — vii
Introduction — The Question of Technology — 1
1 Indigenous Media and the Politics of
Knowledge — 33
2 Casting New Protagonists — 63
3 Cinematic Time and Visual Economy — 85
4 Gender, Complementarity, and the Anticolonial
Gaze — 109
5 Nature, Indians, and Epistemic Privilege — 139
6 Specters and Braided Stories — 163
7 Indigenous Media and the Market — 185
Afterword — 212
Notes — 223
Bibliography — 249
Filmography — 267
Index — 273