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Full Record for Text No. 299


Author 1:Ella Shohat
Author 2:Robert Stam
Title:Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media
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Edited by:
Place:London/New York
Publisher:Routledge
Year:1994
Vol./No./Date:
Pages:
Location:UB Tü: KB 19 A 4103
Synopsis:The volume offers a critique of the universalizaton of Eurocentric norms and Europe's historically oppressive relation to its internal and external 'others'. The authors propose a theorized and historicized discussion of Eurocentrism as shaped and challenged by the media. They investigate which narrative and cinematic strategies have privileged Eurocentric perspectives and how these have been interrogated.
Keyword 1:ethnicity
Keyword 2:Third Cinema
Keyword 3:Third World
Keyword 4:mainstream
Keyword 5:non-mainstream
Keyword 6:diaspora
Keyword 7:postcolonialism
Keyword 8:colonialism
Keyword 9:American film
Keyword 10:media
Keyword 11:racism
Keyword 12:culture
Keyword 13:cultural diversity
Keyword 14:USA
Keyword 15:film
Keyword 16:film theory
Keyword 17:stereotype
Keyword 18:representation
Keyword 19:eurocentrism

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