Unthinking Eurocentrism : multiculturalism and the media / Ella Shohat, Robert Stam.
Material type: TextSeries: Sightlines (London, England)Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994Description: xix, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415063248
- 9780415063241
- 0415063256
- 9780415063258
- Multiculturalism and the media
- 302.2343 20
- PN1993.5.D44 S56 1994
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302.2343 IDE Identifying Hollywood's audiences : cultural identity and the movies / | 302.2343 IMA Image-based research : a sourcebook for qualitative researchers / | 302.2343 PED In broad daylight : movies and spectators after the cinema / | 302.2343 SHO Unthinking Eurocentrism : multiculturalism and the media / | 302.2343 TUR Film as social practice / | 302.2343 TUR Film as social practice / | 302.2343 TUR Film as social practice / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-380) and index.
List of plates -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. From Eurocentrism to Polycentrism -- 2. Formations of Colonialist Discourse -- 3. The Imperial Imaginary -- 4. Tropes of Empire -- 5. Stereotype, Realism, and the Struggle Over Representation -- 6. Ethnicities-in-Relation -- 7. The Third Worldist Film -- 8. Esthetics of Resistance -- 9. The Politics of Multiculturalism in the Postmodern Age -- Select bibliography -- Index.
"Unthinking Eurocentrism explores issues of Eurocentrism and multiculturalism in relation to popular culture, film and the mass media. The book "multiculturalizes" media studies by looking at Hollywood movie genres such as the western, the musical and the imperial film from multicultural perspectives, examining issues from the racial politics of casting to colonialist discourse and gender and Empire. More than just a critique of Eurocentricism and racism, Unthinking Eurocentrism also confirms artistic, cultural and political alternatives, discussing a wide range of non-Eurocentric media including Third World films, rap video and indigenous media. Synthesizing literary theory, media theory and cultural studies to form a challenging interdisciplinary study, the authors agree that current debates about Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism are merely surface manifestations of a deep-rooted shift: the decolinization of global culture."--Publisher description.
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