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Raoul Peck : Power, Politics, and the Cinematic Imagination.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (301 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739198797
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Raoul PeckDDC classification:
  • 791.430233092
LOC classification:
  • PN1998.3.P42R37 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 History Is Too Important to Leave to Hollywood -- 2 Disrupting Conventional Film Structure -- 3 "My Story is Not a Nice Story" -- 4 Framing the Dispersal in Diaspora -- 5 On the Edge of Silence -- 6 Haitian National Identity and Gender in Raoul Peck's Moloch Tropical -- 7 Interrogating Images -- 8 Postcolonialism and the Poetics of Pragmatism -- 9 "Haiti mon amour" -- 10 Lòt Bò and Anba Dlo -- 11 Politics, Masculinity, and Apocalyptic Memory in L'homme sur les quais -- 12 Lessons from the Cinema of Raoul Peck -- 13 Stolen Images or Footnotes -- 14 "Beyond Help?" -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Summary: Raoul Peck: Power, Politics and the Cinematic Imagination includes a collection of essays by leading scholars and an interview and two keynotes addresses by the Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck. The volume focuses on the ways in which power and politics have shaped his oppositional gaze and inform his films and his method as a director.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 History Is Too Important to Leave to Hollywood -- 2 Disrupting Conventional Film Structure -- 3 "My Story is Not a Nice Story" -- 4 Framing the Dispersal in Diaspora -- 5 On the Edge of Silence -- 6 Haitian National Identity and Gender in Raoul Peck's Moloch Tropical -- 7 Interrogating Images -- 8 Postcolonialism and the Poetics of Pragmatism -- 9 "Haiti mon amour" -- 10 Lòt Bò and Anba Dlo -- 11 Politics, Masculinity, and Apocalyptic Memory in L'homme sur les quais -- 12 Lessons from the Cinema of Raoul Peck -- 13 Stolen Images or Footnotes -- 14 "Beyond Help?" -- Index -- About the Contributors.

Raoul Peck: Power, Politics and the Cinematic Imagination includes a collection of essays by leading scholars and an interview and two keynotes addresses by the Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck. The volume focuses on the ways in which power and politics have shaped his oppositional gaze and inform his films and his method as a director.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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