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Focusing on films from Bolivia, Ecuador and Columbia, Indianizing Film encourages readers to consider how indigenous media contributes to a wider understanding of decolonization and anticolonial study against the universal backdrop of the twenty-first century. Through questions of gender, power, and representation Schiwy argues that, instead of solely creating entertainment, through their work indigenous media activists are building communication networks that encourage interaction between diverse cultures. As a result, mainstream images are retooled, permitting communities to strengthen their cultures and express their own visions of development and modernization…. More >>

Indianizing Film: Decolonization, the Andes, and the Question of Technology

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The first and only history of motion picture style. The relation of film style to film technology. New methods for the formal analysis of films. A practical approach to film theory. The application of all this to the analysis and evaluation of the films of Max Ophuls. A complete rewrite of the first twenty-five years of film history…. More >>

Film Style and Technology: History and Analysis

“Technologies of Gender builds a bridge between the fashionable orthodoxies of academic theory (Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, et al.) and the frequently-marginalized contributions of feminist theory…. In sum, de Lauretis has written a book that should be required reading for every feminist in need of theoretical ammunition — and for every theorist in need of feminist enlightenment.” — B. Ruby Rich”… sets philosophical ideas humming…. she has much to say.” — Cineaste”I can think of no other work that pushes the debate on the female subject forward with such passion and intellectual rigor.” — SubStanceThis book addresses the question of gender in poststructuralist theoretical discourse, postmodern fiction, and women’s cinema. It examines the construction of gender both as representation and as self-representation in relation to several kinds of texts and argues that feminism is producing a radical rewriting, as well as a rereading, of the dominant forms of Western culture…. More >>

Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction