This edited collection brings together international scholars and filmmakers with research expertise across a range of non-Western film cultures, but who have one shared aim: to challenge and offer alternatives to Eurocentric theoretical, historical perspectives in film studies.

Foreword: Graeme Harper Introduction: De-Westernizing Film Studies Part 1: (Dis-)continuities of the Cinematic Imaginary: (Non-)Representation, Discourse and Theory Chapter 1: Imagi[ni]ng the Universe: Cosmos, Otherness and Cinema Chapter 2: Questioning Discourses of diaspora: "Black" Cinema as Symptom Chapter 3: Affective Passions: The Dancing Female Body and Colonial Rupture in Zouzou (1934) and Karmen Geï (2001) Chapter 4: African Frameworks of Analysis for African Film Studies Part 2: Narrating the (Trans)Nation, Region and Community from Non-Western Perspectives Chapter 5: De-westernizing national cinema: re-imagined communities in the films of Férid Boughedir Chapter 6: Banal Transnationalism: On Makhmalbaf's "Borderless" Filmmaking Chapter 7: Griots and Talanoa Speak: Storytelling as Theoretical Frames in African and Pacific Island Cinemas Chapter 8: The Intra-East Cinema: the re-framing of an East Asian Film Sphere Part 3: New (dis-)continuities from 'within' the West Chapter 9: "A double set of glasses": Stanley Kubrick and the Midrashic Mode of Interpretation Chapter 10: Situated Bodies, Cinematic Orientations: Film and (Queer) Phenomenology Chapter 11 Has film ever been Western? Continuity and the question of building a "common" cinema Part 4: interviews Editors' note on interviews Chapter 12: "There is No Entirely Non-Western Place Left ": De-Westernizing the moving image, an interview with Coco Fusco Chapter 13: De-Westernizing Film through Experimental Practice: an interview with Patti Gaal-Holmes Chapter 14: "With Our Own Pen and Papers": an interview with Teddy E. Mattera Chapter 15: "To Colonize a Subject Matter is to Learn Nothing from it": an interview with Jonnie Clementi-Smith Chapter 16: "Isn't It Strange that 'World' means Everything Outside the West?": an interview with Rod Stoneman Chapter 17: Beyond Stereotypes and Preconceptions: an interview with Farida Benlyazid Chapter 18: "About Structure, Not about Individual Instances": an interview with Daniel Lindvall Chapter 19: "Still Waiting for a Reciprocal De-Westernization": an interview with Mohammed Bakrim Chapter 20: "Moving Away from a Sense of Cultures as Pure Spaces ": an interview with Deborah Shaw Chapter 21: Nu Third Queer Cinema: an interview with Campbell X Chapter 22: "To Start with a Blank Slate of Free Choices": an interview with Kuljit Bhamra Chapter 23: "The Crazy Dream of living without the Other": an interview with Olivier Barlet Chapter 24: "De-Westernizing as Double Move": an interview with John Akomfrah