This comprehensive collection of essays dedicated to the work of filmmaker Raoul Peck is the first of its kind. The essays, interview, and keynote addresses collected in Raoul Peck: Power, Politics, and the Cinematic Imagination focus on the ways in which power and politics traverse the work of Peck and are central to his cinematic vision. At the heart of this project is the wish to gather diverse interpretations of Raoul Peck's films in a single volume. The essays included herein are written by scholars from different disciplines and are placed alongside Peck's own articulations around the nature of power and politics. Raoul Peck: Power, Politics, and the Cinematic Imagination provides an introduction to Peck's better-known films, interpretations of his rarely seen and recently released early films, and original analyses of his more recent films. It endeavors to explore the ways in which the dual themes of power and politics inform the work of Peck by taking a multidisciplinary approach to contextualizing his filmography. It culls contributions from scholars who write from a wide range of disciplines including history, film studies, literary studies, postcolonial studies, French and Francophone studies and African studies. The result is a volume that offers divergent perspectives and frames of expertise by which to understand Peck's oeuvre that continues to expand and deepen.
Introduction Sophie Saint-Just and Toni Pressley-Sanon History is Too Important to Leave to Hollywood: Colonialism, Genocide and Memory in the Films of Raoul Peck Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall Disrupting Conventional Film Structure: Letters, Voice-Over, and Traumatic Irruption in Raoul Peck's Films Joelle Vitiello "My Story is Not a Nice Story": Sometimes in April (2005) and the Rwandan Genocide Film Jane M. Bryce Framing the Dispersal in Diaspora: Raoul Peck, Transnational Filmmaker Sophie Saint-Just On the Edge of Silence: l'(in)-imaginable and Gendered Representations of the Rwandan Genocide from Photography to Raoul Peck's Sometimes in April Myriam J. A. Chancy Haitian National Identity and Gender in Raoul Peck's Moloch Tropical Tama Hamilton-Wray Interrogating Images: Lumumba: Death of a Prophet as Reflexive AutoBiographical Documentary Rachel Gabara Postcolonialism and the Poetics of Pragmatism: Raoul Peck's Fatal Assistance and Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken "Haiti mon amour" John P. Walsh Lot Bo and Anba Dlo: The Dialectics of Raoul Peck's Desounen: Dialogue with Death Toni Pressley-Sanon Politics, Masculinity, and Apocalyptic Memory in L'homme sur les quais Martin Munro Lessons from the Cinema of Raoul Peck Olivier Barlet Translated by Sophie Saint-Just Stolen Images or Footnotes: Keynote Address to the 2013 Haitian Studies Association Conference Raoul Peck Translated by Sophie Saint-Just "Beyond Help?": Address by Raoul Peck, Conference on "Beyond Aid: From Charity to Solidarity", Frankfurt, Germany - February 20, 2014 Raoul Peck Translated by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall About the Contributors
