Cinematic Settlers

Dr Janne Lahti is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow in History at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He specializes in global and transnational histories of settler colonialism, borderlands, American West, and Nordic colonialism. His books include German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World: Entangled Empires (2020), The American West and the World: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives (2019), and Wars for Empire: Apaches, the United States, and the Southwest Borderlands (2017). Professor Rebecca Weaver-Hightower is Chair of English at North Dakota State University. Her publications include Frontier Fictions: Settler Sagas and Postcolonial Guilt (2018), Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals, and Fantasies of Conquest, (2007), Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance (2014, co-edited with Peter Hulme), and another collection on settler literatures Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space, and Race, (2018, co-edited with Yuting Huang).

Introduction: Reel Settler Colonialism: Gazing, Reception, and Production of Global Settler Cinemas Part I: Conquest 1. The South Pacific as the Final Frontier: Hollywood’s South Seas Fantasies, the Beachcomber, and Militarization 2. Environments of Settler Colonialism in Statehood-Era U.S. Cinematic Depictions of the Hawaiian Islands 3. Settler-Aboriginal Alliance and the Threat of Foreign Invasion in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia 4. Settler Bolsheviks in the Soviet ‘Eastern’ Part II: Settlers 5. Gunless as Settler Colonial Borderlands Fantasy 6. The Unbearable Settler West in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 7. Unser Haus in Kamerun: The Restauration of Settler Colonial Memory in German Post-World War II Cinema 8. Negotiating Between Homelands: Settler Colonial Situation and Settler Ambivalence in Taiwan Cinema Part III: Natives 9. Hero or Dupe: Jay Swan and the Ambivalences of Aboriginal Masculinity in the Films of Ivan Sen 10. In the Land of the Head Hunters: Kwakwaka’wakw Archives and the Settler Colonial Lens 11. Disrupting Settler Innocence in Latin American Films 12. The "Knack": Post-settlement Cinema in Aotearoa New Zealand Part IV: Space 13. Landscapes, Wildlife, and Grey Owl: Settler Colonial Imaginaries and Tourist Spaces in William J. Oliver’s Parks Branch Films, 1920s-1930s 14. From Colonial Casbah to Casbah-banlieue: Settlement and Space in Pépé le Moko (1937) and La Haine (1996) 15. Between Sherwood Forest and the Red Sea: Settler Colonial South Africa in early Hollywood 16. Settler Evasions in Interstellar and Cowboys and Aliens: Thinking the End of the World is Still Easier than Thinking the End of Settler Colonialism