Theorizing Colonial Cinema

The relationship between film and European colonialism still defines the national character of Asian cinema.

Using a film-critical and film-historical approach, Theorizing Colonial Cinema reframes mainstream perspectives by looking outward from the colonies themselves rather than focusing on Europe's imperial histories and archives about the colonies. Contributors pinpoint vari...

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The relationship between film and European colonialism still defines the national character of Asian cinema.

Using a film-critical and film-historical approach, Theorizing Colonial Cinema reframes mainstream perspectives by looking outward from the colonies themselves rather than focusing on Europe's imperial histories and archives about the colonies. Contributors pinpoint various forms of devaluation and misrecognition that have resulted within the region as well as outside it and, tragically, continue to relegate local voices to the margins.

A fascinating read combining film and Asian studies, Theorizing Colonial Cinema reveals new contexts within film theory, history, and ideologies as it centers the question of the colonial perspective and emphasizes how the present is constantly entangled with the colonial past.

Nayoung Aimee Kwon is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image. She is Founding Director of the Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program and the Andrew Mellon Games & Culture Humanities Lab. She is author of Intimate Empire: Collaboration an...

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Nayoung Aimee Kwon is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image. She is Founding Director of the Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program and the Andrew Mellon Games & Culture Humanities Lab. She is author of Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan and editor (with Takashi Fujitani) of Transcolonial Film Coproductions in the Japanese Empire: Antinomies in the Colonial Archive. Takushi Odagiri is Associate Professor of Humanities at Kanazawa University. Moonim Baek is Professor of Korean Language and Literature at Yonsei University. She is author of Chum A-ut: Hankuk Yŏnghwa ŭi Chŏngch'ihak (Zoom-Out: Politics of Korean Cinema), Hyŏngŏn: Munhakkwa yŏnghwa ŭi wŏnkŭnpŏp (Figural Images: Perspectives on Literature and Film), Wŏlha ŭi Yŏkoksŏng: Yŏkwiro Ponŭn Hankuk Kongpoyŏnghwasa (Scream under the Moon: Korean Horror Film History through Female Ghosts), and Im Hwa ŭi Yŏnghwa (Im Hwa's Cinema).