Looking for the Other

Looking for the Other employs Hollywood films about colonial or exotic travel, and those by women filmmakers of colour, to argue that 'male' and the 'imperial' gazes are intertwined in complex ways across cultures. Featured films include Birth of a Nation, The Cat People, Home of the Brave, Black Narcissus, Chocolat , and Warrior Marks . Featured filmmakers include D.W.Griffith, Jacques Tourneur, Michael Powell, Julie Dash, Pratibha Parmar, Trinh T. Min-ha, and Claire Denis.