Southern Screens: Cinema, Culture
and the Global South
Southern Screens: Cinema, Culture and the Global South adopts a transversal south-south approach to the study of screen culture across national and cultural territories. It examines the conditions by which screen culture participates in the generation, sharing, and circulation of new knowledge that is both southern and about the global South. The contributors, all of them residents of the worlds southernmost nations, examine new and traditional media that manifests an affinity with southern cultural imaginaries and territories identifiable through the sociological category of Global South. Some of their chapters engage in analysis linked to specific national contexts, others follow comparative approaches to screen culture across national, regional, and socio-historical borders.
Sketching a new tapestry of references to other areas of southern social science and cultural theory, Southern Screens traces a critical genealogy that here finds a productive place within an emerging, comparative discussion of the screen cultures of the Global South.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies.
Antonio J. Traverso teaches Screen Studies at Curtin University, Australia. He is the author of Documentary Cinema in Chile (forthcoming), and co-editor of El Documental Poltico en Argentina, Chile y Uruguay (2015), Political Documentary Cinema in Latin America (2014), and Interrogating Trauma: Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media (2011).
Southern Screens: Cinema, Culture
and the Global South
Southern Screens: Cinema, Culture and the Global South adopts a transversal south-south approach to the study of screen culture across national and cultural territories. It examines the conditions by which screen culture participates in the generation, sharing, and circulation of new knowledge that is both southern and about the global South. The contributors, all of them residents of the worlds southernmost nations, examine new and traditional media that manifests an affinity with southern cultural imaginaries and territories identifiable through the sociological category of Global South. Some of their chapters engage in analysis linked to specific national contexts, others follow comparative approaches to screen culture across national, regional, and socio-historical borders.
Sketching a new tapestry of references to other areas of southern social science and cultural theory, Southern Screens traces a critical genealogy that here finds a productive place within an emerging, comparative discussion of the screen cultures of the Global South.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies.
Antonio J. Traverso teaches Screen Studies at Curtin University, Australia. He is the author of Documentary Cinema in Chile (forthcoming), and co-editor of El Documental Poltico en Argentina, Chile y Uruguay (2015), Political Documentary Cinema in Latin America (2014), and Interrogating Trauma: Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media (2011).
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Contents
Citation Information
The chapters in this book were originally published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (October 2015). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Heading south, screening the South
Antonio J. Traverso
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (February 2016), pp. 537575
Chapter 2
Digital Storytelling Antarctica
Juan Francisco Salazar and Elias Barticevic
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (February 2016), pp. 576590
Chapter 3
Uneasy social and psychological landscapes in the cinemas of Chile and New Zealand
Walescka Pino-Ojeda
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (February 2016), pp. 591607
Chapter 4
Apocalypse Australis: eschatology on southern screens
Mick Broderick
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (February 2016), pp. 608620
Chapter 5
New political economies of film distribution for South Africas townships? A critical survey of the ReaGil concept
Nyasha Mboti and Keyan Tomaselli
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (February 2016), pp. 621643
Chapter 6
Memory and childhood in the melodrama of the Malvinas War: The Children Who Write on the Sky
Mirta Varela
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (February 2016), pp. 644657
Chapter 7
The craft of killing: trophy bodies and atrocity aesthetics
Suvendrini Perera
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (February 2016), pp. 658675
Chapter 8
Reading across cultures towards a comparative documentary film studies: Eduardo Coutinhos documentary Jogo de Cena (2007)
Deane Williams and Sarah McDonald
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (February 2016), pp. 676688
Chapter 9
A little fiction: person, time and dimension in Ral Ruizs figural cinema
Adrian Martin
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (February 2016), pp. 689701
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