In the image of the I: international relations' discourses of difference reconsidered through the cinematic gaze

Teixeira de Mesquita, P, 1998. In the image of the I: international relations' discourses of difference reconsidered through the cinematic gaze. PhD, Nottingham Trent University.

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Abstract

What insights may be gained from the unorthodox intercourse between international relations and the cinematic text. What may film-analysis contribute to a specifically political study of identity discourses?

This thesis hopes to reconsider the Self / Other dialectic upon which so much of i.r.'s ontology and epistemology has been vested from the point of view of 1980-1997 film-making. It will redirect our attention to the underrated notion of 'international responsibility' and the importance of laying the foundations of an exegesis in- and for our discipline: a method through which we will learn how to read texts, before actually reading them. This thesis hence assumes the contours of a journey that will take us from the shores of the familiar (epistemological assumptions and various representational Orientalisms) to the less trodden lands of the Distant or the marginal: there it is China and its Fifth Generation of filmmakers that will be case-studied, as well as the resistant cinematography of African- America. Having thus travelled back and forth will help re-consider the problematic concept of the 'border' -- both in its theoretical and practical configurations -- and inspire a re-imagining of identity/difference discourses through the gaze of the migrant, the cinematic tales of the exiled and uprooted caught in an elusive quest of 'home'.

Item Type:	Thesis
Creators:	Teixeira de Mesquita, P.
Date:	1998
ISBN:	9781369323306
Identifiers:	Number Type PQ10290081 Other
Divisions:	Schools > School of Arts and Humanities
Record created by:	Linda Sullivan
Date Added:	02 Oct 2020 08:00
Last Modified:	27 Sep 2023 10:02
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/41088

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