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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 5-10 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	September 2020
Genre:	Architektur, Archäologie, Kunst
ISBN:	9781350194403
EAN-Code:	9781350194403
Verlag:	Bloomsbury 3PL
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Serie:	World Cinema
Dimensionen:	H 234 mm / B 156 mm / D 20 mm
Gewicht:	570 gr
Seiten:	376
Zus. Info:	Paperback
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Winner of the 2020 R. Gapper Prize for the Best Book in French Studies Since the beginnings of African cinema, the realm of beauty on screen has been treated with suspicion by directors and critics alike. James S. Williams explores an exciting new generation of African directors, including Abderrahmane Sissako, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Fanta Régina Nacro, Alain Gomis, Newton I. Aduaka, Jean-Pierre Bekolo and Mati Diop, who have begun to reassess and embrace the concept of cinematic beauty by not reducing it to ideological critique or the old ideals of pan-Africanism. Locating the aesthetic within a range of critical fields - the rupturing of narrative spectacle and violence by montage, the archives of the everyday in the 'afropolis', the plurivocal mysteries of sound and language, male intimacy and desire, the borderzones of migration and transcultural drift - this study reveals the possibility for new, non-conceptual kinds of beauty in African cinema: abstract, material, migrant, erotic, convulsive, queer. Through close readings of key works such as Life on Earth (1998), The Night of Truth (2004), Bamako (2006), Daratt (Dry Season) (2006), A Screaming Man (2010), Tey (Today) (2012), The Pirogue (2012), Mille soleils (2013) and Timbuktu (2014), Williams argues that contemporary African filmmakers are proposing propitious, ethical forms of relationality and intersubjectivity. These stimulate new modes of cultural resistance and transformation that serve to redefine the transnational and the cosmopolitan as well as the very notion of the political in postcolonial art cinema.