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Neuerscheinung: The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Film
Edited By Ernie Blackmore, Kerstin Knopf, Wendy Gay Pearson, Corina Wieser-Cox
The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Film is dedicated to bringing the work of Indigenous filmmakers around the world to a larger audience. By giving voice to transnational and transcultural Indigenous perspectives, this collection makes a significant contribution to the discourse on Indigenous filmmaking and provides an accessible overview of the contemporary state of Indigenous film.
Comprising 37 chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook is divided into six parts:
- Decolonial Intermedialities and Revisions of Western Media
- Colonial Histories, Trauma, Resistances
- Indigenous Lands, Communities, Bodies
- Queer Cultures and Border Crossings
- Youth Cultures and Emancipation
- Art, Comedy, and Music.
Within these sections Indigenous and non-Indigenous experts from around the world examine various aspects of Indigenous film cultures, analyze the works of Indigenous directors and producers worldwide, and focus on readings (contextual, historical, political, aesthetic, and activist) of individual Indigenous films. The Handbook specifically explores Indigenous film in Canada, Mexico, the United States, Central and South America, Northern Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific, and the Philippines.
This richly interdisciplinary volume is an essential resource for students and scholars of Indigenous Studies, Cultural Studies, Area Studies, Film and Media Studies, Feminist and Queer Studies, History, and anyone interested in Indigenous cultures and cinema.
The Gothic Canadian Century. Unhomely Beginnings and Canada's Gothic Literature in English 1800-1900
Author: Kerstin Knopf
ISBN 978-3-98940-054-2, 312 pp., paperback, � 39,50 (2024)
This book provides a comprehensive account of Canadian gothic literature throughout the nineteenth century, including little-known texts that were popular in their day but have since sunk into oblivion. Based on various American Gothic subgenres discussed in detail, it establishes the Frontier Gothic, French-Canadian Gothic, Exploration Gothic, Orientalist Gothic, and Female Gothic as major Canadian gothic subgenres. The book theorizes Canada’s unhomely beginnings and traces the responding development of Canadian gothic literature, while relating textual analyses to the British and American gothic traditions. The book discusses the Canadian texts' responses to land, historical trauma, frontier experience, nation-building, colonial ideologies of conquest, rifts between Old and New World values, as well as anxieties about French and British neglect and American domination, national identity, and fears of the national and cultural 'other.' Women's texts responded vigorously to conventional gender beliefs, marriage laws, and patriarchal domination of women, while employing the gothic mode to imagine rebellious and gender-bending behavior and more egalitarian or unfettered lives for women. The book also teases out the gaps in terms of coloniality and enslavement and shines a light on the ghosts of the dispossessed Natives and enslaved Africans wherever they dared to appear.