Contemporary Lusophone African Film (eBook, PDF)

Transnational Communities and Alternative Modernities
Redaktion: De Medeiros, Paulo; Apa, Livia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Offering a range of critical perspectives on a vibrant body of films, this collection of essays engages with questions specific to the various cinemas and films addressed while putting forward an argument for their inclusion in current debates on world cinema.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429651557
• Artikelnr.: 60567412

Autorenporträt

Paulo de Medeiros is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, with a focus on Modern and Contemporary World Literatures, at the University of Warwick. As member of the Warwick Research Collective, one of his current projects is a study of Postimperial Europe. Livia Apa is a member of the Center for Studies on Contemporary Africa (CESAc) at the University of Naples 'L'Orientale'. She works on literary and cultural studies in Portuguese-speaking countries, focused on African cinema, migrations, and cultures of the diaspora, linguistic rights, and contemporary African thought.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Situating Lusophone African Cinema ; 1. Lusophone African
Cinema as World-Cinema ; 2. Lusophone Filmmaking in the realm of
transnational African cinemas: from 'global ethnic' to 'global aesthetic' ;
3. Sounds of Liberation: Sarah Maldoror's Sambizanga (1972) and Miguel
Gomes' Tabu (2012) ; 4. Resistance and Political Awareness Through the
Eye-Camera of Sarah Maldoror ; 5. The eleventh island: Cape Verde, the
moving images and its diaspora ; 6. Postcolonial Testimony and the ruins of
empire ; 7. In the Name of the Rosa: The Ethnographic Reflex in the Cinema
of Licínio Azevedo ; 8. From the tabanca to Bissau, from Bissau to the
Diaspora: Social Narratives in the Bissau-Guinean Popular Cinema ; 9. The
Representation of Ritual and Cinema as a Ritual in Revolutionary
Mozambique: Ruy Guerra's 'Mueda, Memória e Massacre' ; 10. A melancholic
outlook on 40 years of lusophone audio-visual production and Guinea, the
two faces of the war as case study ; 11. 'We need to dress ourselves in the
black light': an authorial analysis of Lusophone African cinema - Flora
Gomes's case ; 12. Pedro Pimenta, in Interview with Livia Apa