Queer African cinemas / / Lindsey B. Green-Simms
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| Autore: |
Green-Simms Lindsey B. <1978->
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| Titolo: |
Queer African cinemas / / Lindsey B. Green-Simms
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| Pubblicazione: | Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43653 |
| Soggetto topico: | Homosexuality in motion pictures |
| Homosexuality and motion pictures - Africa | |
| Gay people in motion pictures | |
| Motion pictures - Africa - History and criticism | |
| Classificazione: | PER004030SOC064000 |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Registering Resistance: The Pluralities and Possibilities of Queer African Cinemas -- Making Waves: Queer Eccentricity and West African Wayward Women -- Touching Nollywood: From Negation to Negotiation in Queer Nigerian Cinema -- Cutting Masculinities: Post-Apartheid South African Cinema -- Holding Space, Saving Joy: Queer Love and Critical Resilience in East Africa -- Coda: Queer Cinema's Destiny (a view from 2020). |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "In Queer African Cinemas, Lindsey B. Green-Simms examines films produced by and about queer Africans in the first two decades of the twenty-first century in an environment of increasing anti-queer violence, efforts to criminalize homosexuality, and other state-sanctioned homophobia. Green-Simms argues that these films not only record the fear, anxiety, and vulnerability many queer Africans experience; they highlight how queer African cinematic practices contribute to imagining new hopes and possibilities. Examining globally circulating international art films as well as popular melodramas made for local audiences, Green-Simms emphasizes that in these films queer resistance-contrary to traditional narratives about resistance that center overt and heroic struggle-is often practiced from a position of vulnerability. By reading queer films alongside discussions about censorship and audiences, Green-Simms renders queer African cinema as a rich visual archive that documents the difficulty of queer existence as well as the potentials for queer life-building and survival"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Queer African cinemas |
| ISBN: | 1-4780-9365-X |
| 1-4780-2263-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910743211003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
A Camera Obscura Book