Global Circulations of Film Theory

Sarah Cooper is Professor of Film Studies at King’s College London. Her most recent publications include Film and the Imagined Image (2019) and a special issue of the journal Philosophies, ‘Thinking Cinema – With Plants’ (2023). She was Principal Investigator for the AHRC-funded Global Circulations of Film Theory network project (2023–24). Aboubakar Sanogo is Associate Professor in Film Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His work has appeared in Cinema Journal, Framework, Moving Image Review & Art Journal, Rethinking History, Journal of Film Preservation, Film Quarterly, Sight and Sound and Film Comment. He was Co-Investigator for the AHRC-funded Global Circulations of Film Theory network project (2023–24).

• AcknowledgementsList of Contributors IntroductionSarah Cooper Part I. Sites and Circulations of Early Film Theory1. ‘An Archaeology of Early Philippine Film Writings’Jashil R. Sonido 2. ‘START Film Society: Cinephile Culture, Film Theory and Political Activism in 1930s Poland’Łukasz Biskupski 3. ‘Towards a Socialist Gaze: Theorising the Spectator in the Early Soviet Union’ Emma Widdis4. ‘Misremembering Hebrew Film Theory: The Circulation of Film Discourse in Mandatory Palestine and Israel in its First Decades’Boaz Hagin5. ‘Translating Pudovkin or How an Indian Actor Prepares: An Interpretive, Performative and Literary Approach’Sarah R. NiaziPart II. Third Cinema and Beyond: Translating, Decolonising, Reworlding6. ‘Tracing African Archaeologies, Manifestations of, and Contributions to, Third Cinema Ecologies’Aboubakar Sanogo7. ‘Translating Third Cinema in Cold War South Korea’Hieyoon Kim8. ‘Decolonising Co-authorship at the Interstices of Third and Fourth Cinema: Amussu’Will Higbee9. ‘Reworlding Third Cinema’Masha SalazkinaPart III. From Decolonising Theory to Global Circuits of Critical Coalition10. ‘Decolonisation and Asia as Problematics’Victor Fan 11. ‘Decolonising the Seventh Art’Ahmed Bedjaou12. ‘A Carrier Bag Theory of Cinema’So Mayer13. ‘Dis/obedience: Sumud, Survivance and Theorising (Native American and Palestinian) Film with Decoloniality’Michele Aaron Part IV. Theorising through Film and Other Media Objects14. ‘Thinking Through Film: Ritwik Ghatak’s CinematicManishita Dass15. ‘Speculative Inventions of Southeast Asian Cinemas: Theorising through PracticeElizabeth Wijaya16. ‘Screenlife Films: Theorising Moving Images through Intermedial Encounters of (Post-colonial) Bodies’Izabella Füzi 17. ‘From the South: A Relational Approach to Global Circulations of Film Theory through Film, Television and Digital Media in Brazil’Esther HamburgerPart V. New Genealogies and Sites of Theory: Between the Global North and Global South18. The Origins of the International Association of Documentary Filmmakers: Where the Traditions and Theories of Documentary Film Intersect with the Rise of Direct Cinema and Cinéma Vérité’Mariano Mestman 19. ‘From Revolutionary to Co-Evolutionary Cinema: Film Theory in 1980s Nigeria and the Rise of Nollywood’Vinzenz Hediger20. ‘Nativising the Electric Shadow: The Genealogy of a Chinese Media Concept’Hongwei Thorn Chen21. ‘Politics of Bracketing: Matsumoto Toshio, Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenological Film Theory’Naoki Yamamoto