Research Catalog

Title

Cinema at the periphery / edited by Dina Iordanova, David Martin-Jones, and Belén Vidal.

Publication

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Iordanova, Dina.
• Martin-Jones, David.
• Vidal, Belén, 1974-
• Vidal, Belén.

Description

vii, 268 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

From Iceland to Iran, from Singapore to Scotland, a growing intellectual and cultural wave of production is taking cinema beyond the borders of its place of origin - exploring faraway places, interacting with barely known peoples, and making new localities imaginable. In these films, previously entrenched spatial divisions no longer function as firmly fixed grid coordinates, the hierarchical position of place as 'center' is subverted, and new forms of representation become possible. In Cinema at the Periphery, editors Dina Iordanova, David Martin-Jones, and Belén Vidal assemble criticism that explores issues of the periphery, including questions of transnationality, place, space, passage, and migration. Cinema at the Periphery examines the periphery in terms of locations, practices, methods, and themes. It includes geographic case studies of small national cinemas located at the global margins, like New Zealand and Scotland, but also of filmmaking that comes from peripheral cultures, like Palestinian 'stateless' cinema, Australian Aboriginal films, and cinema from Quebec. Therefore, the volume is divided into two key areas: industries and markets on the one hand, and identities and histories on the other. Yet as a whole, the contributors illustrate that the concept of 'periphery' is not fixed but is always changing according to patterns of industry, ideology, and taste. Cinema at the Periphery highlights the inextricable interrelationship that exists between production modes and circulation channels and the emerging narratives of histories and identities they enable. In the present era of globalization, this timely examination of the periphery will interest teachers and students of film and media studies.

Series Statement

Contemporary approaches to film and television series

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Contemporary approaches to film and television series.

Subjects

• Culture in motion pictures
• Motion pictures and globalization
• Motion pictures and transnationalism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : a peripheral view of world cinema / Dina Iordanova, David Martin-Jones, Belén Vidal -- Peripheral positions : (re-)drawing industries and markets. Rise of the fringe : global cinema's long tail / Dina Iordanova -- Affinitive and milieu-building transnationalism : the Advance Party initiative / Mette Hjort -- Cinema in a settler society : brand New Zealand / Duncan Petrie -- Peripheral visions : Blak screens and cultural citizenship / Faye Ginsburg -- Emerging from underground and the periphery : Chinese independent cinema at the turn of the twenty-first century / Sheldon H. Lu -- New spaces of empire : Quebec cinema's centers and peripheries / Bill Marshall -- Peripheral visions : (re-)conceiving identities and histories. The Palestinian road (block) movie : everyday geographies of second Intifada cinema / Kay Dickinson -- Islands at the edge of history : landscape and the past in recent Scottish-Gaelic films / David Martin-Jones -- Filming the times of Tangier : nostalgia, postcolonial agency, and preposterous history / Patricia Pisters -- Back to the margins in search of the core : Foreign land's geography of exclusion / Lúcia Nagib -- Memories of underdevelopment : Torremolinos 73, cinephilia, and filiation at the margins of Europe / Belén Vidal -- Experience-information-image : a historiography of unfolding in Arab cinema / Laura U. Marks.

ISBN

• 9780814333884 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0814333885 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009023918

OCLC

402542116

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library