A Decolonising Approach to Genre Cinema Studies

Autor/in	Shamash, Sarah
Titel	A Decolonising Approach to Genre Cinema Studies
Quelle	In: Film Education Journal, 5 (2022) 1, S.41-54 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Shamash, Sarah)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Decolonization; Film Study; Foreign Countries; World Views; College Instruction; Films; Canada (Vancouver); Brazil + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Dekolonisation; Entkolonialisierung; Filmkurs; Ausland; World view; Weltanschauung; Hochschullehre; Film; Brasilien
Abstract	This paper examines the pedagogical and decolonial possibilities of teaching genre cinema through non-Western perspectives. As a sessional instructor teaching across multiple institutions in Vancouver, Canada, I elaborate on how I have taught genre cinema as a decolonial and pedagogical project. Through course design that recognises the way that the evolution of film theory in general, and genre theory in particular, has been encoded in Euro-Western-centrism and analysis, my teaching practice brings into conversation other knowledges and approaches to film-making and film studies that have often been excluded from film studies pedagogy. My pedagogical project is to decolonise film studies, including genre theory, as exemplified in such courses as: Re-Visioning Genre Theory, a fourth-year course at Emily Carr University of Art and Design; Genre Cinema: From Classical Hollywood to Global Contemporary, a third-year course at the University of British Columbia; and Refiguring Futurisms, a fourth-year film seminar at the University of British Columbia. Some of the questions explored in my research and teaching practice consider how genre cinema is adopted and subverted in contemporary non-Western films. In this paper, I use Latin American decolonial theory to focus on Brazilian cinema as an exemplar of non-Western and decolonial approaches to genre theory. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01