Special Issue 'Moving Beyond the (De)Colonial Container: The Work of Film Festivals', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media

TY - JOUR

T1 - Special Issue 'Moving Beyond the (De)Colonial Container: The Work of Film Festivals', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media

A2 - Sendra, Estrella

A2 - Petty, Sheila

PY - 2025/2/19

Y1 - 2025/2/19

N2 - This Alphaville issue brings together contributions that probe innovative approaches and methods of decolonising knowledge in screen cultures. Beginning with the question of what and whose knowledge is privileged, we seek to understand how film festivals, from inception to production, engage with knowledge paradigms to dismantle matrices of power and perform and promote artistic representations of sovereignty. We are particularly interested in work on film festivals that theorises and historicises (de)colonial frameworks for engaging with all aspects of film festivalisation.(De)colonising knowledge is not a new concern, born exclusively of activities resulting from Truth and Reconciliation Commissions. In fact, as several scholars point out, some relatively little-known events have contributed to and/or “provoke debates around the world concerning decolonization” (Perego 11). The Algerian War of Independence, for example, “known in Algeria most commonly as the thwara (Arabic for ‘revolution’), came to emblemize the struggles of millions across the world against colonial rule and for greater dignity” (11). Various groups around the globe retain different perceptions of the term—applied locally— which we attempt to unpack in this special issue.

AB - This Alphaville issue brings together contributions that probe innovative approaches and methods of decolonising knowledge in screen cultures. Beginning with the question of what and whose knowledge is privileged, we seek to understand how film festivals, from inception to production, engage with knowledge paradigms to dismantle matrices of power and perform and promote artistic representations of sovereignty. We are particularly interested in work on film festivals that theorises and historicises (de)colonial frameworks for engaging with all aspects of film festivalisation.(De)colonising knowledge is not a new concern, born exclusively of activities resulting from Truth and Reconciliation Commissions. In fact, as several scholars point out, some relatively little-known events have contributed to and/or “provoke debates around the world concerning decolonization” (Perego 11). The Algerian War of Independence, for example, “known in Algeria most commonly as the thwara (Arabic for ‘revolution’), came to emblemize the struggles of millions across the world against colonial rule and for greater dignity” (11). Various groups around the globe retain different perceptions of the term—applied locally— which we attempt to unpack in this special issue.

UR - https://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue28.html

U2 - 10.33178/alpha.28.00

DO - 10.33178/alpha.28.00

M3 - Editorial

SN - 2009-4078

SP - 1

JO - Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media

JF - Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media

IS - 28

ER -