Expanding Postcolonial ApproachesThe past two decades have witnessed a “postcolonial turn” in the study of European cinema and broader media landscape. This shift has forced scholars interested in global migration and increasingly multiracial and multicultural societies to rethink the status of individual films and filmmakers, as well as the history of national cinemas aligned with European hegemony. These developments create a pressing need to reflect critically on emergent postcolonial approaches, and to expand these epistemological tools to new and hybrid variations. Our workshop therefore builds on and extends recent challenges to Eurocentric views of national and world cinemas like Saverio Giovacchini and the late Robert Sklar’s Global Neorealism (2013), Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller’s Postcolonial Cinema Studies (2011) and Saer Maty Ba and Will Higbee’s De-Westernizing Film Studies (2012).
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Event Participants
Elena Benelli, Concordia University
Luca Caminati, Concordia University
Derek Duncan, University of St. Andrews
Shelleen Greene, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Rosanna Maule, Concordia University
Ara Merjian, New York University
Giuliana Minghelli, McGill University
Vetri Nathan, University of Massachusetts Boston
Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds
Viva Paci, Université du Québec à Montréal
Masha Salazkina, Concordia University
Rhiannon Noel Welch, Rutgers Rutgers University
Simona Wright, The College of New Jersey
Alberto Zambenedetti, University of Toronto