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      A decolonising approach to genre cinema studies

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      Film Education Journal
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      genre cinema, decolonisation, Brazilian cinema, Latin America, film pedagogy

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          This paper examines the pedagogical and decolonial possibilities of teaching genre cinema through non-Western perspectives. As a sessional instructor teaching across multiple institutions in Vancouver, Canada, I elaborate on how I have taught genre cinema as a decolonial and pedagogical project. Through course design that recognises the way that the evolution of film theory in general, and genre theory in particular, has been encoded in Euro-Western-centrism and analysis, my teaching practice brings into conversation other knowledges and approaches to film-making and film studies that have often been excluded from film studies pedagogy. My pedagogical project is to decolonise film studies, including genre theory, as exemplified in such courses as: Re-Visioning Genre Theory, a fourth-year course at Emily Carr University of Art and Design; Genre Cinema: From Classical Hollywood to Global Contemporary, a third-year course at the University of British Columbia; and Refiguring Futurisms, a fourth-year film seminar at the University of British Columbia. Some of the questions explored in my research and teaching practice consider how genre cinema is adopted and subverted in contemporary non-Western films. In this paper, I use Latin American decolonial theory to focus on Brazilian cinema as an exemplar of non-Western and decolonial approaches to genre theory.

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                Journal
                fej
                Film Education Journal
                UCL Press (UK )
                2515-7086
                14 June 2022
                : 5
                : 1
                : 41-54
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Emily Carr University of Art and Design, University of British Columbia, Canada
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                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7073-9383
                Article
                10.14324/FEJ.05.1.05
                43b6aa5c-99c8-459b-8bcd-d05fe7c7d093
                Copyright 2022, Sarah Shamash

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 16 August 2021
                : 26 January 2022
                Page count
                References: 31, Pages: 14
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                Education,Educational research & Statistics,General education
                decolonisation,Brazilian cinema,film pedagogy,Latin America,genre cinema

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