Film and (Post) Colonialism Flashcards
1
Q
European powers were among the first to explain the aesthetic possibility of film, as well as exploring on a large scale. What were the primary types of films where this is apparent?
A
Travel logs, and ethnographic
2
Q
What did early colonialist films serve to do?
A
- To institutionalize certain looking relations that have endured into the present
- To shore up certain assumptions about racial difference that were already in circulation when cinema was invented
3
Q
Postcolonialism denotes the historical era characterized by what?
A
The dissolution of European empires, a break with and a continuation of postcolonialism
4
Q
What increase was there in the postcolonial era?
A
Increasing frequency in filmmaking in colonized and aboriginal people
5
Q
Postcolonial counter-cinema responds to what?
A
Dominant representations
6
Q
What are the goals of postcolonial counter-cinema?
A
- To counter colonial ideology
- To press film technology in the service of local narrative traditions
- To rectify omissions to dominant historical accounts
- To imagine a precolonial past
- To imagine a truly postcolonial future
- Confront past, ponder present, and imagine a future
6
Q
Define post colonialism
A
Both a break from and a continuation of colonialism
