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Unthinking Eurocentrism : multiculturalism and the media / Ella Shohat, Robert Stam.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Sightlines (London, England)Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994Description: xix, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415063248
  • 9780415063241
  • 0415063256
  • 9780415063258
Other title:
  • Multiculturalism and the media
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.2343 20
LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.D44 S56 1994
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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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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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