Brotkrumenpfad
14.12.: Ringvorlesung "Approaches in Popular Culture Studies"
Das DSP-Kolleg Popular Culture Studies veranstaltet im WS 2018/19 eine Ringvorlesung mit dem Titel "Approaches in Popular Culture Studies". Der zweite Termin findet am 14. Dezember von 11-13 Uhr im Unipark (Raum 2.138) statt und behandelt das Thema "Decolonlzotion and Postcolonial Clnema In Canada, Brazil, Australia and Nigeria ".
The representation of postcolonial non-European cultures in Western mainstream media – print, television, radio, feature films, and ethnographic films – is often a neo/colonial discourse fraught with ethnocentrism, prejudice, distortion, and stereotypes. Neo/colonial discourses have created myths of Indigenous and local people embedded in the semantics of exoticism, primitivism, and savagery, which, in turn, have shored up Eurocentric cultural hegemonies, generated racialized thought, and cemented ‘naturalized’ Eurocentric cultural, political, and economic domination of subaltern people.
Indigenous and subaltern film directors and producers around the world have started to battle this politics of representation by “filming back” and working towards decolonizing current film discourses. Notably the last decade has seen an immense development in Indigenous and postcolonial feature film production which shows in the ever-growing Indigenous and African film festivals around the world.
Prof. Knopf’s guest lecture will outline basic ideas of decolonizing film and then discuss four films from different postcolonial regions. These examples include the feature films Johnny Tootall (Canada, 2005), Birdwatchers (Brazil, 2008), Stone Bros (Australia, 2009), and MAAMi (Nigeria, 2011).
