Kenneth W. Harrow

African Cinema in a Global Age (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the developments in African films that were made from the 1990s to the present within the evolving frame of what came to be called 'World Cinema' and, eventually, 'Global Cinema.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000938104
• Artikelnr.: 68555439

Autorenporträt

Kenneth W. Harrow is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of English at Michigan State University. His work focuses on African cinema and literature. He is the author of Thresholds of Change in African Literature (1993), Less Than One and Double: A Feminist Reading of African Women's Writing (2001), Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism (2007), Trash! A Study of African Cinema Viewed from Below (2013), and Space and Time in African Cinema and Cine-scapes (2022). He also co-edited, with Carmela Garritano, A Companion to African Film (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: African Cinema in a Global Age Part One: The Long 1990s 1. What the 1980s Brought 2. Kenneth Nnuebe
Living in Bondage (1992) and the Onset of Nollywood 3. Claire
Denis
Chocolat (1988)
Auteurism and African Cinema Part Two: The Problematics of Modernity in African Cinema at the Millenium 4. Modernity in the Work of Tunde Kelani: Ti Oluwa Ni Ile (1993) and Thunderbolt: Magun (2001) 5. Modernity
Dominique Loreau
and Les Noms n'habitent nulle part (1994) 6. Two Films of Sotigui Kouyate
a Modern Griot: A. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Sotigui Kouyaté (1995); Rachid Bouchareb
Little Senegal (2000) 7. Framing Modernity
Abroad: Anyaene
Ije (2010) and Andrew Dosunmu
Mother of George
2013 Part Three: African Cinema in an Age of Globalism Prologue: Time and the End: Cheah's Normativity and Teleological Time 8. Alain Gomis
Tey (2012): Being Toward Death 9. Two Films about Women Witches: Rugano Nyoni
I Am Not a Witch (2017); Maia Lekow
Christopher King
The Letter (2019) 10. The Resistance of the Old Woman: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
This Is Not a Burial
It's a Resurrection (2019) Conclusion: An Opera of This World (2017)
Manthia Diawara: The Encounter with the Other Face-to-Face