"Reflecting the burgeoning academic interest in issues of nation, race, gender, sexuality, and other axes of identity, Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media brings all of these concerns under the same umbrella, contending that these issues must be discussed in relation to each other. Communities, societies, nations, and even entire continents, the book suggests, exist not autonomously but rather in a densely woven w ..."
Subversive Pleasures Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) by ProfessorRobertStam Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1989 by The Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-3814-9, ISBN: 0-8018-3814-2
"Subversive Pleasures offers the first extended application of Mikhail Bakhtin's critical methods to film, mass-media, and cultural studies. With extraordinary interdisciplinary and multicultural range, Robert Stam explores issues that include the "translinguistic" critique of Saussurean semiotics and Russian formalism, the question of language difference in the cinema, issues of national culture in Latin America, and "the carnivalesque" ..."
"He has published extensively both scholarly articles and books on filmic
narration and/or early cinema, notably Du littéraire au ... Luke Gibbons, Professor
of English and concurrent Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and
Theater at the ... His academic interests include film and literature, the visual arts,
aesthetics, politics and cultural history, and ... Gaelic Gothic: Race, Colonialism
and Irish Culture (2004), c ..."
"While the term “culture wars” often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in diverse sites and languages. Race in Translation charts the transatlantic traffic of the debates within and between three zones—the U.S., France, and Brazil. Stam and Shohat trace the literal and figurative translation of these multidirectional ..."
Unthinking Eurocentrism(2nd Edition) Multiculturalism and the Media (Sightlines) by Ella Shohat, ProfessorRobertStam Hardcover, 508 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-53859-6, ISBN: 0-415-53859-9
"Unthinking Eurocentrism, a seminal and award-winning work in postcolonial studies first published in 1994, explored Eurocentrism as an interlocking network of buried premises, embedded narratives, and submerged tropes that constituted a broadly shared epistemology. Within a transdisciplinary study, the authors argued that the debates about Eurocentrism and post/coloniality must be considered within a broad ..."
François Truffaut and Friends Modernism, Sexuality, and Film Adaptation by ProfessorRobertStam Paperback, 262 Pages, Published 2006 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-3725-2, ISBN: 0-8135-3725-8
""Supple and sophisticated, Francois Truffaut and Friends tells an affecting story--several stories--and does so with verve."--Dudley Andrew, Professor of Comparative Literature and Film Studies, Yale University "An original and fascinating study that spins out from Truffaut's Jules and Jim to explore the world of literature, film, and avant-garde sexuality."--James Naremore, author of More Than Night: Film Noir and Its Contexts "A fas ..."
"This innovative volume traces Brazil's singular character, exploring both the remarkable richness and cohesion of the national culture and the contradictions and tensions that have developed over time. What shared experiences give its citizens their sense of being Brazilian? What memories bind them together? What metaphors and stereotypes of identity have emerged? Which groups are privileged over others in idealized representations of t ..."
"Robert Stam. didactic texts of Jonathan Culler and Christopher Norris on issues of structural linguistics and deconstruction ... of the structure of the book; Robert Burgoyne was fundamentally responsible for Part III, and Sandy Flitterman-Lewis was fundamentally responsible for Part IV. ... Allen, John Belton, Edward Branigan, Joel Lewis, Christian Metz, David Nelson, R. Barton Palmer, Tova Shaban and xiv."
"Documenting the Documentary features essays by twenty-seven film scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives. Each essay focuses on one or two important documentaries, engaging in questions surrounding ethics, ideology, politics, power, race, gender, and representation -- but always in terms of how they arise out of or are involved in the reading of specific documentaries as particular textual constructions. By c ..."
"Mapping the historical and cultural contexts of film practices in Latin America, this two-volume collection of programmatic statements, esays and interviews is devoted to the study of a theorized, dynamic and unfinished cinematic movement. Forged by Latin America's post-colonial environment of underdevelopment and dependency, the New Latin American Cinema movement has sought to inscribe itself in Latin America's struggles for cultural a ..."
"Anthony J. Mazzella In the 1973 video interview prepared by Richard Schickel
and aired on PBS, Alfred Hitchcock commented on a link between literature and
film: "Literature," Hitchcock said, "can [create an emotion] by the way the
language is used or the words are put together. But sometimes you find that a film
is looked at solely for its content without any regard to the style or manner in
which the story is told. And, after all, ..."
Literature and Film A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation by ProfessorRobertStam Published 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-470-70530-8, ISBN: 0-470-70530-2
Race in Translation(Updated) Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic Stam, Robert and Shohat, Ella by ProfessorRobertStam, Ella Shohat, John Taylor Hardcover, 383 Pages, Published 2012 by New York University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-9837-9, ISBN: 0-8147-9837-3
"While the term "culture wars" often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in diverse sites and languages. Race in Translation charts the transatlantic traffic of the debates within and between three zones--the U.S., France, and Brazil. Stam and Shohat trace the literal and figurative translation of these multidirectiona ..."
"Narration1. AndreÂ. Gaudreault. and. FrancËois. Jost. There are no stories
without a storytelling instance. Virtually all narratologists agree on this point.
Films differ, however, from novels in that a film can show an action rather than tell
it. In that regime of showing (monstration), notably in theatrical staging or in the ``
documentary'' recordings of the LumieÁre Brothers, the discursive instance is
less apparent than in a wr ..."
"Xica (Zeze Motta), a slave belonging to Arraial de Tijuco's master sergeant,
appears before Joao Fernandes's arrival in the town. She is first seen sitting on
the ground of the courtyard of her master's house and is soon interrupted by the
sergeant's son, Jose, who later runs off to Vila Rica, the capital of the region, to
join a rebellion against colonial rule. The rebellion, which is not seen but merely
mentioned in the film, is ..."
Teorias Del Cine/ Film Theory Una Introduccion / an Introduction (Paidos Comunicacion / Paidos Communication) (Spanish Edition) by ProfessorRobertStam, Carles Roche Suárez Paperback, 418 Pages, Published 2001 by Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A ISBN-13: 978-84-493-1063-8, ISBN: 84-493-1063-6
"El presente libro ofrece una historia exhaustiva de las teorías del cine durante el siglo XX. El texto recorre el camino que va desde teóricos del cine mudo como Vachel Lindsay y Hugo Munsterberg hasta los últimos capítulos de la teoría cinematográfica y los estudios culturales (la teoría cognitiva, Deleuze, la teoría homosexual, la teoría poscolonial, la teoría digital) y da cuenta de fenómenos desarrollados en países como Francia, Ale ..."
"En este libro, el multiculturalismo y la crítica del eurocentrismo son dos conceptos inseparables, pues relaciona dos temas que a menudo se relegan a ámbitos reservados a los especialistas: por un lado, los debates referentes a las políticas de identidad y raza; por otro, los debates sobre el discurso (pos)colonial y el nacionalismo en el Tercer Mundo. Stam y Shohat sitúan la cultura popular en el centro mismo de estos debates posmodern ..."