Lindsey B. Green-Simms

Queer African Cinemas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Lindsey B. Green-Simms examines films produced by and about queer Africans in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, showing how these films record the fear, anxiety, and vulnerability many queer Africans experience while at the same time imagining new hopes and possibilities.

Produktdetails

• A Camera Obscura book
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9781478018018
• ISBN-10: 1478018011
• Artikelnr.: 61440500

Autorenporträt

Lindsey B. Green-Simms

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Registering Resistance in Queer African Cinemas  1
1. Making Waves: Queer Eccentricity and West African Wayward Women  37
2. Touching Nollywood: From Negation to Negotiation in Queer Nigerian Cinema  73
3. Cutting Masculinities: Post-Apartheid South African Cinema  123
4. Holding Space, Saving Joy: Queer Love and Critical Resilience in East Africa  165
Coda. Queer African Cinema's Destiny  203
Notes  211
Filmography  227
References  231
Index  243