Geopolitics and the Postcolonial
Geopolitics of European Cinema: Expanding Postcolonial Approaches to Film Studies will bring seven leading film scholars to Concordia. These experts will join a cadre of Montreal-based academics to tackle key methodological issues currently facing European film studies. The 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).
Taking such theoretical innovations into new areas of inquiry, our event promotes Concordia as a setting for high-level analysis and debate focussing particularly on the Southern European context. Here, distinguished scholars will assess current studies of European cinema and collectively generate new research tools to complicate and enrich postcolonial models by combining them with other counter-hegemonic approaches.
Taking such theoretical innovations into new areas of inquiry, our event promotes Concordia as a setting for high-level analysis and debate focussing particularly on the Southern European context. Here, distinguished scholars will assess current studies of European cinema and collectively generate new research tools to complicate and enrich postcolonial models by combining them with other counter-hegemonic approaches.
This event is co-organised by Dr. Luca Caminati, Associate Professor of Film Studies, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema,
Concordia University, Montreal and Dr. Shelleen Greene, Associate Professor and Area Head for Writing and Critical Thinking, Department of Art and Design, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Concordia University, Montreal and Dr. Shelleen Greene, Associate Professor and Area Head for Writing and Critical Thinking, Department of Art and Design, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.