Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema
The Politics of Beauty
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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-350-10505-8
- EAN: 9781350105058
- Produktnummer: 30159087
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 376 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 12'440 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 36 b&w
Über den Autor
James S. Williams is Professor of Modern French Literature and Film at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
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