Robert Stam: 6 books

Book cover of Race in Translation

Race in Translation

Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic

by Ella Shohat, Robert Stam
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012

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...
Book cover of Film Theory

Film Theory

An Introduction

by Robert Stam
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017

This book is a lively and provoking introduction to film theory. It is suitable for students from any discipline but is particularly aimed at students studying film and literature as it examines issues common to both subjects such as realism, illusionism, narration, point of view, style, semiotics,...
Book cover of Flagging Patriotism

Flagging Patriotism

Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism

by Ella Shohat, Robert Stam
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013

The question "Why do they hate us?" is one of the most oft-cited puzzles of contemporary American affairs, yet it’s not clear to whom "they" or "us" refers, nor even what "hate" means. In this bold new work, Ella Shohat and Robert Stam take apart the "hate...
Book cover of World Literature, Transnational Cinema, and Global Media
by Robert Stam
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019

With extraordinary transnational and transdisciplinary range, World Literature, Transnational Cinema, and Global Media comprehensively explores the genealogies, vocabularies, and concepts orienting the fields within literature, cinema, and media studies. Orchestrating a layered conversation...
Book cover of Unthinking Eurocentrism

Unthinking Eurocentrism

Multiculturalism and the Media

by Ella Shohat, Robert Stam
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014

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,...
Book cover of Keywords in Subversive Film / Media Aesthetics
by Robert Stam
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015

Keywords offers a conversational journey through the overlying terrains of politically engaged art and artistically engaged politics, combining a major statement on subversive aesthetics, a survey of radical film strategies, and a lexicon of over a thousand terms and concepts. No other book combines...
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