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Trash : African cinema from below / / Kenneth W. Harrow



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Autore: Harrow Kenneth W Visualizza persona
Titolo: Trash : African cinema from below / / Kenneth W. Harrow Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2013
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (344 p.)
Disciplina: 791.43096
Soggetto topico: Refuse and refuse disposal in motion pictures
Motion pictures - Africa
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Bataille, Stam, and locations of trash -- Ranciere: aesthetics, its mesententes and discontents -- The out-of-place scene of trash -- Globalization's dumping ground: the case of Trafigura -- Agency and the mosquito: Mitchell and Chakrabarty -- Trashy women: Karmen Gei, L'Oiseau Rebelle -- Trashy women, fallen men: Fanta Nacro's "Puk Nini" and La nuit de la verite -- Opening the distribution of the sensible: Kimberly Rivers and Trouble the water -- Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako and the image: trash in its materiality -- The counter-archive for a new postcolonial order: O Herói and Daratt -- Nollywood and its masks: Fela, Osuofia in London, and Butler's Assujetissement -- Trash's last leaves: Nollywood, Nollywood, Nollywood.
Sommario/riassunto: Highlighting what is melodramatic, flashy, low, and gritty in the characters, images, and plots of African cinema, Kenneth W. Harrow uses trash as the unlikely metaphor to show how these films have depicted the globalized world. Rather than focusing on topics such as national liberation and postcolonialism, he employs the disruptive notion of trash to propose a destabilizing aesthetics of African cinema. Harrow argues that the spread of commodity capitalism has bred a culture of materiality and waste that now pervades African film. He posits that a view from below permits a way to understan
Titolo autorizzato: Trash  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-299-24347-9
0-253-00757-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910807501003321
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