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