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Screen Culture in the Global South Cinema at the End of the World
This volume adopts a transversal South-South approach to the study of visual culture in transnational, transcultural, and geopolitical contexts.
Every day hundreds of people travel back and forth between southern countries, including Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, New Zealand, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and South Africa. With these people travel cultures, experiences, memories, and images. This creates the conditions for the generation, sharing, and circulation of new knowledge that is both southern and about the South as a specific kind of material and imaginary territory (or territories). It does so through the study of the southern hemisphere’s screen cultures, addressing the broad spectrum of cultural expression in both traditional and new screen media, including film, television, video, digital, interactive, and online and portable technologies.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Arts.
1. Introduction: Cinema at the End of the World
Antonio Traverso and Deane Williams
Part I
2. Between Political Film and Militant Video: An Analysis of the Discussions at the Rencontres Internationales pour un Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal, 1974
Mariano Mestman
3. The Return to the Social through the Collective "I": Disrupting the Uneventful Face of Neoliberal Precariousness in the Chilean Documentary El otro día
Walescka Pino-Ojeda
4. Representations of Women’s Agency in African Anti-Colonial Struggles: The Case of Sambizanga (1972) and Mapantsula (1988)
Norita Mdege
5. After Death: Public Mourning, Discourse, and Myth in the Afterlife Representations of a Tanzanian Movie Star
Claudia Böhme
Part II
6. Introduction – Dossier: Screen Genres of Reconciliation in Australia, Chile, Rwanda, and New Zealand
Antonio Traverso, Mick Broderick, Felicity Collins and Susannah Radstone
7. Not Reconciled: Grey Matter (Ruhorahoza 2011) and the Lacunae of Post-Genocide Rwandan Cinema
Mick Broderick
8. Top of the Lake’s Emotional Landscape: Reparation at the Edge of the World
Susannah Radstone
9. La Flaca Alejandra: Post-Dictatorship Documentary and (No) Reconciliation in Chile
Antonio Traverso
10. Disturbing the Peace: The Ghost in beDevil and The Darkside
Felicity Collins
Part III
11. "Be Careful, Cowboy": The Translation and Mutation of the Western Genre in Red Hill
Nicholas Moll
12. Transnational Telenovela Remakes: Challenging Dominant Models and Old-Fashioned Heroines
Sofia Rios
13. Different but the Same: Landscape and the Gothic as Transnational Story Space in Jane Campion’s Sweetie (1989) and Lucrecia Martel’s La Ciénaga (2001)
Margaret McVeigh
14. Mapping the Landscape with Sound: Tracking the Soundscape from Australian Colonial Gothic Literature to Australian Cinema and Australian Transcultural Cinema
Anne Barnes
15. Kangaroo: The Australian Story
Constantine Verevis
16. Beyond Poetics: Raúl Ruiz’s Rethinking of Narrative
Julia Vassilieva
17. The Maslyn Williams Network
Ross Gibson and Deane Williams
Biography
Antonio Traverso is a Senior Lecturer at Curtin University, Australia, where he teaches Screen Studies. He is co-editor of El Documental Político en Argentina, Chile y Uruguay (with Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli, 2015), Political Documentary Cinema in Latin America (with Kristi M. Wilson, 2014), and Interrogating Trauma: Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media (with Mick Broderick, 2011).
Deane Williams is Associate Professor of Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Australia. He was Editor of the refereed international journal Studies in Documentary Film (2006–2017). He is the author of The Cinema of Sean Penn: In and Out of Place (2015), co-editor of The Grierson Effect (with Zoë Druick, 2014), and co-editor of Australian Film Theory and Criticism (three volumes, with Noel King and Constantine Verevis, 2013–6).
Keyan G. Tomaselli is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is editor of Critical Arts and has been working with various Chinese universities on cultural and media topics.
