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NYU DEPARTMENT OF CINEMA STUDIES

Race, Nation and Representation

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1997.

Abrash, Barbara and Catherine Egan, eds. Mediating History: The MAP Guide to Independent Video. New
York: New York University Press. (1992)

Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1989.

Acham, Christine. Revolution Televised (Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 2000).

Agamben, Giorgio. State of Exception. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Ahmad Aijaz. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. London: Verso. (1992)

Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. London:
Verso. (1983)

Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of

Minnesota Press (1996).

Armes, Roy. Third World Filmmaking and the West. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

Balibar, Etienne. We, the People of Europe: Reflections on Transnational Citizenship. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2003.

Balibar, Etienne and Immanuel Wallerstein. Race, Nation and Class: Ambiguous Identities. London: Verso.
(1991).

Barber, Karin. Readings in African Popular Culture. Indiana University Press, 1997.

Barlet, Olivier. African Cinemas: Decolonizing the Gaze. London: Zed Books, 2001.

Barnouw, Erik, and S. Krishnaswamy. Indian Film. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1963; 2nd ed.: New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.

Bell, Derrick. Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. New York: Basic Books, 1992.

Beltran, Mary and Camilla Fojas, eds. Mixed Race Hollywood. New York: NYU Press, 2008.

Berg, Charles Ramirez. Cinema of Solitude: A Critical Study of Mexican Film, 1967
1983. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992.

__________ . Latino Images in Film: Stereotypes, Subversion, Resistance.

Austin: University of Austin Press, 2002.

Bhabha, Homi K. Nation and Narration. London: Routledge, 1990.

___________ . Location of Culture. New York: Routledge, 1993.

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Bobo, Jacqueline. The Color Purple: Black Women as Cultural Readers. Female
Spectators Looking at Film and Television. E. Deidre Pribram, ed. Verso: London and
New York, 1988, pp. 90-109.

Bogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American
Films. New York: Continuum. (1989)

Calder, Angus, et al. African Fiction and Film: Three Short Case Studies. Milton Keynes, England: Open
University Press. (1983)

Carby, Hazel. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro American Woman Novelist. New York:
Oxford University Press. (1987)

_________ . Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America. New York: Verso, 1999.

Carew, Jan. Fulcrums of Change. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press. (1988)

Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. The Empire Strikes Back: Race and
Racism in 70s Britain. London: Hutchinson, 1982.

Chakravarty, Sumita. National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993.

Cham, Mbye B. Ex-Iles: Caribbean Cinema. Trenton N.J.: Africa World Press. (1991)

Cham, Mbye B. and Claire Andrade-Watkins, eds. Blackframes: Critical Perspectives on Black Independent
Cinema. Cambridge: MIT Press. (1988)

Chatterjee, Partha. Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 1993.

____________ . Empire and Nation: Selected Essays. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.

Chow, Rey. Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1993.

___________ . The Rey Chow Reader. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.

Chung, Hye Seung. Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance. Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 2006.

Churchill, Ward. Fantasies of the Master Race. M. Annette Jaimes, ed. Maine: Common Courage Press. (1992)

Crawford, Ian Peter and David Turton. Film as Ethnography. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
(1992)

Cripps, Thomas. Slow Fade to Black. New York: Oxford University Press. (1977)

-----------------. Black Film as Genre. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (1979)

-----------------. Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights
Era. New York: Oxford. (1993)

Cyr, Helen W. A Filmography of the Third World. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. (1986)

Daniels, Therese and Jane Gerson, eds. The Color Black. London: British Film Institute. (1989).
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Davis, Mike. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World. New York: Verso,
2002.

Delgado, Richard. The Rodrigo Chronicles: Conversations about America and Race. New York: New York
University Press, 1995.

Delgado, Richard & Jean Stefanicic, eds., Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 2000.

Dennison, Stephanie and Song Hwee Lim: Remapping World Cinema. London; New York: Wallflower Press,
2006.

Dent, Gina, ed. For a project by Michele Wallace. Black Popular Culture. Seattle: Bay Press. (1992)

Diawara, Manthia. African Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (1992)

-----------------. Black American Cinema. London: Routledge. (1993).

__________ . African Film: New Forms of Aesthetics and Politics. New York: Prestel 2010.

Dissanayake, Wimal, ed. Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana U. Press.
(1994)

Downing, John D.H., ed. Film and Politics in the Third World. New York: Autonomedia. (1987)

Dyer, Richard. White. London: Routledge, 1997.

Engelhardt, Tom. The End of Victory Culture. New York, NY : Basic Books, 1995.

Fabian, Johannes. Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object. New York: Columbia University
Press. (1983)

Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press. (1965) Reprint of Les damns de la terre
Paris. (1961)

____________ . Black Skin, White Masks. New York: Grove, 2008 (revised edition).

Ferguson, Russel, Martha Gever, Trihn T. Minh-ha, and Cornel West, eds. Out There: Marginalization
and Contemporary Cultures. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1990.

Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey. Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora
Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity, (Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1997.

Foucault, Michel. Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College de France, 1977-1978. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Fredrickson, George M. Racism: A Short History. Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 2002.

Fregoso, Rosa Linda. The Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film Culture. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1993.

Friar, Ralph and Natasha. The Only Good Indian: The Hollywood Gospel. New York: Drama Books, 1972.

Friedman, Lester, ed. Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema. Urbana, Illinois: University of
Illinois Press. (1991)
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Fusco, Coco. Young, British and Black. Buffalo: Hallwalls. (1988)

Gabbard, Krin. Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers
University Press, 2004.

Gabriel, Teshome H. Third Cinema in the Third World: The Aesthetic of Liberation. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI
Research Press. (1982)

Gates, JR, Henry Louis. The Signifying Monkey. New York: Pxford University Press. (1988)

_________, ed. Race, Writing and Difference. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (1986)

Gayle, Addison, JR. The Black Aesthetic. New York: Doubleday. (1972)

Gilroy, Paul. There Aint No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1992.

__________ .The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
(1993)

Giroux, Henry A. and Peter McLaren. Between Borders: Pedagogy and the Politics of Cultural Studies. New
York: Routledge. (1994)

Gooding-Williams, Robert, ed. Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Gray, Herman. Watching Race: Television and the Struggle for Blackness. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1995.

Grewal, Iderpal and Caren Kaplan eds. Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist
Practices. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.

Guehenno, Jean-Marie. The End of the Nation-State. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.

Guerrero, Ed. Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film. Philadelphia: Temple University
Press, 1993.

Guneratne, Anthony R. and Wimal Dissanayake. Rethinking Third Cinema. London: Routledge, 2005.

Hamamoto, Darrell Y. Asian Americans and the Politics of TV Representation.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.

Harrow, Kenneth. Postcolonial African Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.

Hjort, Mette and Scott Mackenzie, eds. Cinema and Nation. London: Routledge, 2000.

Hobsbawm, Eric. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1992.

Hobsbawm, Eric and Terence Ranger, eds. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press,
1983.

Hockings, Paul, ed. Principles of Visual Anthropology. The Hgue: Moutour. (1975)

hooks, bell. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End. (1992).

__________ . Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies, new edition. New York: Routledge, 2008.
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Identity. ICA Documents 6. London: ICA, 1987.

Jameson, Fredric. The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System. Bloomington and
London: Indiana and BFI. (1992)

Janmohamed, Abdul R. and David Llyod, eds. The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse. New York:
Oxford University Press. (1990)

Jayawardena, Kumari. Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World. London: Zed. (1986)

Jhally, Sut and Justin Lewis. Enlightened Racism: The Cosby Show, Audiences and the Myth of the American
Dream. Boulder: Westview Press. (1992)

Johansen, Bruce. The Forgotten Founders. Ipswich, Mass: Gambit, 1982.

Johnson, Randall and Robert Stam, eds. Brazilian Cinema. Farleigh Dickinson
University Press: Cranbury, NJ, 1982.

Kaplan, E. Ann. Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film, and the Imperial Gaze. London: Routledge, 1997.

Kilpatrick, Jacqueline. Celluloid Indians. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

Klotman, Phyllis Rouch, ed. Screenplays of the African American Experience. Bloomington: Indiana U. Press,
1991.

Klotman, Phyllis and Janet Cutler, eds., Struggles in Representation: African American Documentary Film and
Video. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Knight, Arthur. Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film. (Durham: Duke U.
Press, 2002).

Leab, Daniel J. From Sambo to Superspade: The Black Experience in Motion Pictures. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin. (1976)

Loewen, James. Lies My Teacher Told Me New York: Touchstone, 1996.

Lowe, Lisa. Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996.

Lyons, Oren, John Mohawk, Vine Deloria, Jr., Laurence Hauptman, Howard Berman, Donald Grinde
JR., Curtis Berkey, Robert Venables et al. Exiled in the Land of the Free: Democracy, Indian Nations, and
the U.S. Constitution. Santa Fe: Clear Light. (1992)

Malkums, Lizbeth and Roy Armes. Arab and African Filmmaking. London: Zed. (1991)

Martin, Angela, ed. African Films: The Context of Production. BFI Dossier no. 6. British Film Institute. (1982)

Mask, Mia. Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

Maynard, Richard A. Africa On Film: Myth and Reality. Rochelle Park N.J.: The Hayden Book Co. (1974)

-----------------. The Black Man on Film: Racial Stereotyping. N.J.: Hayden Books. (1974).

Mercer, Kobena. Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Mbembe, Achile. On The Postcolony. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

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Memmi, Albert. The Colonizer and the Colonized. London: Souvenir Press, 1974.

Miller, Randall M., ed. The Kaleidoscopic Lens: Hoe Hollywood Views Ethnic Groups. Englewood, N.J.: Jerome
S. Ozer, 1980.

Miller, Toby et al., Global Hollywood 2. London: BFI, 2008.

Mills, Charles. The Racial Contract. Ithaca: Cornell U. Press, 1997.

Mohanty. Chandra. Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Durham: Duke
University Press, 2003.

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, Ann Russo, Lourdes Torres, eds. Third World Women and the Politics of
Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (1991).

Mudimbe, V. Y. The Invention of Africa Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.

Murphy, David and Patrick Williams. Postcolonial African Cinema. Manchester: Manchester U. Press, 2008.

Naficy, Hamid. The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press. (1993)

-----------------. An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking. Princeton: Princeton U. Press. (2001)

----------------- and Teshome H. Gabriel, ed. Otherness and the Media: The Ethnography of the Imagined
and the Image. Langhorne, Penn: Harood. (1993)

Ong. Aiwa. Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Durham, NC: Duke U. Press, 1999.

Parker, Andrew, Marry Russo, Doris Sommer and Patricia Yaeger. Nationalism and Sexualities. New
York: Routledge. (1992).

Petty, Sheila J. Contact Zones: Memory, Origin, and Discourses in Black Diasporic Cinema. Detroit: Wayne
State, 2008.

Pfaff, Francoise, ed., Focus on African Films. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.

Pieterse, Jan Nederveen. White on Black: Images of Africa and Blacks in Western Popular Culture. New
Haven: Yale University Press. (1992)

Pines, Jim and Paul Willemen. Questions of Third Cinema. London: BFI. (1989).

Prashad, Vijay. The Darker Nations: A Peoples History of the Third World. New York: The New Press, 2007.

Pratt, Mary-Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel, Writing and Transculturation. New York: Routledge. (1992)

Pribram, Deidre, ed. Female Spectators: Looking at Film and Television. London: Verso. (1988)

Raphael-Hernandez, Heike & Shannon Steen eds., AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics. (New
York: New York U. Press, 2006).

Ray, Satyajit. Our Film, Their Films. Calcutta: Orient Longman. (1976)

Rayns, Tony, and Scott Meek. Electric Shadows: Forty-five Years of Chinese Cinema. London: BFI, 1980.
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Reeves, Geoffrey. Communications and the Third World. London: Routledge. (1993)

Reid, Mark A. Redefining Black Film. Berkeley: University of California Press. (1992).

Richardson, Michael. Otherness in Hollywood Cinema. New York: Continuum. 2010.

Robinson, Cedric. Black Marxism. 2nd edition, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

________ . Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks & the Regimes of Race in American Theater & Film
Before WWII., (Chapel Hill: U. of N. Carolina Press, 2007).

Rodney, Walter. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. London: Bogle-Louverture. (1972)

Rogin, Michael. Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1998.

Ross, Kristin. Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture. Cambridge: MIT,
1996.

Said, Edward. Orientalism. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. (1978)

-----------------. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Knopf. (1993)

Salmane, Hala, et al. Algerian Cinema. London: BFI. (1976)

Sherzer, Dina, ed. Cinema, Colonialism, Postcolonialism: Perspectives from the French and Francophone
Worlds (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996)

Schneider, Cynthia and Brian Wallis, eds. Global Television. New York: Wedge Press, 1988.

Shohat, Ella. Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation. Austin: U. of Texas Press. (1989)

Shohat, Ella and Robert Stam, Unthking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media London: Routledge.
(1994)

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Temple University Press. (1990)

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Snead, James. White Screens, Black Images: Hollywood from the Dark Side. New York: Routledge, 1994.

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----------------- and Sarah Harasym, eds. The Postcolonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues. New
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Administration. Durham: Duke. (1993)

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Stewart, Jacqueline Nijuma. Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2005.

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Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005.

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-----------------. When the Moon Waxes Red. New York: Routledge. (1991)

-----------------. Framer Framed. London: Routledge. (1992)

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-----------------. Invisibility Blues. London: Verso. (1990)

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of Chicago Press, 1999.

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___________ . Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Blackwell). Oxford; New York: Oxford U. Press, 2003.

Special Issues:

The last Special Issue On Race? Screen. Vol. 29, No. 4 (Autumn, 1988)

Other Cinemas, Other Criticisms. Screen. Vol. 26, No. 3-4 (1985)

Racism, Colonialism and Cinema Screen. Vol. 24, No. 2 (1983)