Screen Culture in the Global South

This volume adopts a transversal South-South approach to the study of visual culture in transnational, transcultural, and geopolitical contexts.

Every day hundreds of people travel back and forth between southern countries, including Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, New Zealand, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and South Africa. With these people travel cultures, experiences, memories, and images. This creates the conditions for the generation, sharing, and circulation of new knowledge that is both southern and about the South as a specific kind of material and imaginary territory (or territories). It does so through the study of the southern hemisphere’s screen cultures, addressing the broad spectrum of cultural expression in both traditional and new screen media, including film, television, video, digital, interactive, and online and portable technologies.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Arts.

Antonio Traverso is a Senior Lecturer at Curtin University, Australia, where he teaches Screen Studies. He is co-editor of El Documental Político en Argentina, Chile y Uruguay (with Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli, 2015), Political Documentary Cinema in Latin America (with Kristi M. Wilson, 2014), and Interrogating Trauma: Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media (with Mick Broderick, 2011).

Deane Williams is Associate Professor of Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Australia. He was Editor of the refereed international journal Studies in Documentary Film (2006–2017). He is the author of The Cinema of Sean Penn: In and Out of Place (2015), co-editor of The Grierson Effect (with Zoë Druick, 2014), and co-editor of Australian Film Theory and Criticism (three volumes, with Noel King and Constantine Verevis, 2013–6).

Keyan G. Tomaselli is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is editor of Critical Arts and has been working with various Chinese universities on cultural and media topics.