Cinemas of the Global South

Towards a Southern Aesthetics
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-72747-9
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 380 g

This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation; and as an arena of virtuality, creativity and change. It opens up a dialogue amongst scholars and filmmakers from the Global South: India, Nigeria, Colombia, Brazil, South Africa, and Egypt.

The essays in the volume approach cinema as an intertwined process of both production and perception not divorced from the economic, social, political and cultural. They emphasise film as a visual medium where form, structure and content are not separable. Through a wide array of film-readings, the authors explore the concept of a southern cinematic esthetics, in particular, and the concept of the Global South in general.

The volume will be of interest to scholars, students and researchers of film and media studies, critical theory, cultural studies and Global South studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Menon, Dilip M

Taha, Amir

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Cinemas of the Global South: Towards A Southern Aesthetics 2. Southern Aesthetics. The Egyptian Way: Shadi Abelsalam’s The Day of Counting the Years (1969) 3. Constellations of Time: Towards A Cartography of Plundered Memories 4. Singing in Saffron Times: Documentary Film and Resistance to Majoritarian Politics in India 5. Local Realism: Indian Independent Film as a Socio-political Medium6. Indian gangsters, American noir and Africa’s Drum magazine: the making of a South African gangster fliek during early apartheid 7. Contagious Aesthetics: Bios, Politics and Cinema in Contemporary Kerala 8. Dealing with The Precarious City: Violence, Memory and Rhythms of Endurance in La sombra del caminante (Ciro Guerra 2005) & La sociedad del semáforo (Ruben Mendoza, 2010) 9. Cinematics of Southern Environmentalism

Über Autor(innen)

Dilip M Menon is Professor of History and International Relations at the University of Witwatersrand, and Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa. His interests are in knowledge from the Global South, South Asian cultural and intellectual history and oceanic histories. He has edited Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global South (2022) and Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought (2023).

Amir Taha gained his PhD in English Literature and Cultures from the University of Tübingen in 2017. He is an Associate Researcher at Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA), University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Taha taught Film Studies, Cultural Studies and Global South Studies at the University of Tübingen and at Wits University. He is the author of Film and Counterculture in the 2011 Egyptian Uprising (2021) and is the co-editor of the upcoming Cinemas from the Global South. Towards Southern Aesthetics (Routledge).