{"product_id":"raoul-peck-9780739198780","title":"Raoul Peck","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaoul Peck: Power, Politics and the Cinematic Imagination includes a collection of essays by leading scholars and an interview and two keynotes addresses by the Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck. The volume focuses on the ways in which power and politics have shaped his oppositional gaze and inform his films and his method as a director.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This splendid and unrivaled collection by noted scholars and declarations by the filmmaker himself marks a decisive intervention in the study of Raoul Peck—filmmaker extraordinaire and citizen engage.” -- Michael T. Martin, Indiana University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Sophie Saint-Just and Toni Pressley-Sanon  History is Too Important to Leave to Hollywood: Colonialism, Genocide and Memory in the Films of Raoul Peck\t\t Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall  Disrupting Conventional Film Structure: Letters, Voice-Over, and Traumatic Irruption in Raoul Peck’s Films Joëlle Vitiello  “My Story is Not a Nice Story”: Sometimes in April  (2005) and the Rwandan Genocide Film Jane M. Bryce  Framing the Dispersal in Diaspora: Raoul Peck, Transnational Filmmaker Sophie Saint-Just  On the Edge of Silence: l’(in)-imaginable and Gendered Representations of the Rwandan Genocide from Photography to Raoul Peck’s Sometimes in April Myriam J. A. Chancy  Haitian National Identity and Gender in Raoul Peck’s Moloch Tropical  Tama Hamilton-Wray  Interrogating Images: Lumumba: Death of a Prophet as Reflexive AutoBiographical Documentary Rachel Gabara  Postcolonialism and the Poetics of Pragmatism: Raoul Peck’s Fatal Assistance and Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima mon amour  Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken   “Haiti mon amour” John P. Walsh  Lòt Bo and Anba Dlo: The Dialectics of Raoul Peck’s Désounen: Dialogue with Death Toni Pressley-Sanon  Politics, Masculinity, and Apocalyptic Memory in L’homme sur les quais Martin Munro  Lessons from the Cinema of Raoul Peck Olivier Barlet Translated by Sophie Saint-Just  Stolen Images or Footnotes: Keynote Address to the 2013 Haitian Studies Association Conference Raoul Peck Translated by Sophie Saint-Just  “Beyond Help?”: Address by Raoul Peck, Conference on “Beyond Aid: From Charity to Solidarity”, Frankfurt, Germany – February 20, 2014 Raoul Peck Translated by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall  About the Contributors","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037558505815,"sku":"9780739198780","price":91.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780739198780.jpg?v=1750936253","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/raoul-peck-9780739198780","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}