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Bibliography: Cinema as Assembly

 

Film anthropologist Massimilano Mollona has compiled a bibliography to accompany Cinema as Assembly. Where available, links to the texts have been included. This page will be updated over the course of the project.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, London: Verso, 2019.

Barry Barclay, Our Own Image: A Story of a Māori Filmmaker, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990.

Barry Barclay, ‘Celebrating Fourth Cinema’, Illusions, 2003.

Tina Campt, ‘Black Visuality and the Practice of Refusal’, in Women and Performance, 2019.

Tina Campt, A Black Gaze, Changing How We See, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021.

Carneiro da Cunha and Helena ‘Vilalta, Yanomami, Let’s Talk’, Afterall 48, 2019.

T.J Demos, The Migrant Image. The Art and Politics of Documentary During the Global Crisis, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023.

Nitasha Dhillon, ‘Life, Film, and Decolonial Struggle’, in World Records, vol. 4, 2022.

Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar (eds.), The Ghosts of Songs. The Film of the Black Audio Film Collective, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007.

Kodwo Eshun, and Ros Gray, ‘The Militant Image: A Ciné-Geography’, in Third Text, vol. 25, no. 1, January 2011, pp. 1–12.

Julio García Espinosa, ‘For an Imperfect Cinema’, trans. Julianne Burton, Jump Cut, no. 20, 1979, pp. 24-26.

Athur Jafa and Tina Campt, ‘Love is the Message. The Plan is Death’, e-flux #81, 2017.

Trinh Minh-ha, ‘The Image and the Void’, Journal of Visual Culture, vol. 15, issue 1, 2016.

Elizabeth Povinelli, Geontologies. A Requiem to Late Liberalism, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2022.

Glauber Rocha, ‘The Aesthetics of Hunger’, in Ismail Xavier (ed.), Glauber Rocha. On Cinema, London: I. B. Tauris, 2019, pp 41-46.

Audra Simpson, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, and Liza Johnson, ‘Holding up the World. Part IV. After a screening of When the Dogs Talked; at Columbia’, e-flux #58, 2014.

Peter Snowdon, The People Are Not an Image: Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring, London: Verso, 2020.

Gabriel Teshome, ‘Towards a Critical Theory of Third World Film’, Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture, 1, January 2015, pp.187-203.

Ismail Xavier, 1997. Allegories of Underdevelopment: Aesthetics and Politics in Modern Brazilian Cinema, Minesota: Minestoa Iniversity Press, 1997.

Nadia Yaqub, ‘Catastrophe and Post-Catastrophe in the Films of Kamal Aljafari’, in Viola Shafik (ed.) Documentary Filmmaking in the Middle East and North Africa, Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2022.

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