Screening postcolonial intellectuals: cinematic engagements and postcolonial activism.

Transnational Screens, Volume 13, Issue 2 (2022)  https://doi.org/10.1080/25785273.2022.2094612

Autor: 

1. Sandra Ponzanesi; Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; S.Ponzanesi@uu.nl; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2085-1094
2. Ana Cristina Mendes; Department of English, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3596-0701

Keywords: Intellectuals; Cinema; Postcolonialism; diaspora; visuality; activism.

Abstract: This special issue proposes new ways of seeing and thinking aboutpostcolonial intellectuals through the frame of transnationalscreens. For this purpose, the issue develops around the twofoldnotion of the intellectual as a filmmaker and the intellectual as anobject of filmmaking. In particular, it focuses on the ways in whichthis interrelationship expands notions of postcolonial theory andpractice regarding the aesthetic and political intervention of intel-lectuals in transnational screen culture. Many postcolonial figureshave been influential not only in rethinking the ways in whichrepresentation should be conceived and theorized but also ininspiring new forms of visuality and aesthetics through their lifeand work. These figures include Frantz Fanon, Assia Djebar, andStuart Hall, and others explored in this issue, such as Toni Morrison,Raoul Peck, Ai Weiwei, and Steve McQueen. The special issue alsoincludes exclusive interviews with Ai Weiwei and Trinh T. Minh-ha,artists, intellectuals, activists, and filmmakers whose engagementwith postcolonial debates, and more broadly with the politics andaesthetics of filmmaking, have contributed to a reshaping of con-temporary postcolonial realities and discourses, in scholarship andthe public sphere. 

Idioma: Inglés. 

Publicación: 30 june 2022

Volumen: Transnational Screens, Volume 13, Issue 2 (2022)

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