Prabhu Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-58868-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book

Analyzing art house films from the African continent and theAfrican diaspora, this book showcases a new generation of auteurswith African origins from political, aesthetic, and spectatorshipperspectives.
* Focuses on art house cinema and discusses commercial Africancinema
* Enlarges our understanding of African film to include thematicand aesthetic influence
* Highlights aesthetic and political aspects including racialidentity, women's issues, and diaspora
* Heavily illustrated with over 90 film stills
* Features selected stills integral to the filmic analysis infull color
* Moves beyond Western-oriented analytical paradigms

Autoren/Hrsg.

Prabhu, Anjali

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
1 AfricaWatch: Parameters and Contexts 1
Part I Space 33
2 The Postcolonial City: Education of the Spectator in Harrikrisna Anenden's The Cathedral 35
3 Framing the City: Africanizing Viewer and Viewed through Angle, Distance, Genre, and Movement 55
Part II Character 77
4 Models of African Femininity 79
5 African Masculinity: "We Don't Need Another Hero" 113
6 Revolutionary Personhood: Revolutionize the Spectator, or Stop,Thief! 133
Part III Narrative 155
7 Documentary Film: Situating a Style 157
8 African Narration: Narration of Africa 172
9 Jean-Marie Teno: Creating an African Repertoire 187
10 Conclusion: Inside/Outside or How to Make a Film about Africa Today 216
Filmography 234
References 238
Glossary 246
Index 251

Über Autor(innen)

Anjali Prabhu is Professor of French and Francophone Studiesat Wellesley College, USA, where she also teaches in the Cinema andMedia Studies Program. The author of Hybridity: Limits,Transformations, Prospects (2007), she has published widely injournals such as Cinema Journal, International Journal ofFrench and Francophone Studies, Levinas Studies,Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy,Diacitics, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-first CenturyLiteratures, Présence Francophone, andComparative Literature Studies.