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The Cultural Practice of Immigrant Filmmaking
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Introduction: The Cultural Practice of Immigrant Filmmaking

Film and Theory

Minor cinemas, the public sphere and the production of locality

Migration and diaspora: Notes on recent research

Outline of the book                      

Chapter 1: Migrants’ Minor Cinemas: Beyond Accented and Exilic Cinema

Accented cinema          

Minor cinema

Beyond textual models of the accented and exilic         

Chapter 2: Conditions of Production: Immigrant’s Associations and Workshops in Sweden   

Immigration and culture in post-war Sweden

Establishing experimental film culture: The Independent Film Group 

Immigrant film as cultural policy: The Stockholm Film Workshop

The momentary agency: Cineco (Cinecooperativo)

To be or not to be a filmmaker: Kaledioscope

Do it yourself: The Tensta Film Association

The production of film, the production of experience and the public

Chapter 3: From Avant-garde to Communion: Ten Films by Immigrant Filmmakers in Sweden             

Fabulations in the minor key                                           

Study 1 (Awakening) by Peter Weiss (1952)                                  

Alone by the Tensta Film Association (1974)                               

Do You Want to Join Me, Martha? by the Tensta Film Association (1980)

Interference by Maureen Paley (1977)                                         

The Earthman by Muammer Özer (1980)                         

The Mirage by Guillermo Álvarez/Cineco (1981)                         

The Sea is Far Away by Reza Bagher (1983)                                

The Promise by Menelaos Carayannis (1984)                               

The Waiting by Myriam Braniff (1989)                                        

Five Minutes for the Souls of America by César Galindo (1992)                

Projecting a public, creating a context                                          

Chapter 4: The Cultural Practice of Minor Immigrant Cinema Archiving

The archival life of cinema

The archival trajectories of the immigrant films             

The Stockholm Film Workshop and immigrant filmmaking 

Performing accidental archives 

Dispostif in the making, palimpsests of minor histories and the politics of recognition                  

Conclusion: Immigrant Filmmaking as Minor Cinema Practice                    

About the Author

John Sundholm is chair of the Department of Media Studies and professor of cinema studies at Stockholm University. Lars Gustaf Andersson is professor of film studies at Lund University.

Reviews

'This fascinating and painstakingly researched book unearths the rich history of immigrant filmmaking and film workshops in Sweden, interrogating the concept of minor cinema and the tenets of film historiography. Offering ten case studies, Andersson and Sundholm examine the films as one element in a complex process and practice encompassing filmmaker associations, film policy, audiences and archives.'

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