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190415r20192019enk ob 101 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781350105041 |
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9781784533359 (hardback) |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
791.43096 |
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23 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Williams, James S., |
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1963- |
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author. |
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18058 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Ethics and aesthetics in contemporary African cinema : |
| Remainder of title |
the politics of beauty / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
James S. Williams. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First edition. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
London, England : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Bloomsbury Publishing, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2019. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
1 online resource (xii, 363 pages.). |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"Since the beginnings of African cinema, the realm of beauty on screen has been treated with suspicion by directors and critics alike. James S. Williams explores an exciting new generation of African directors, including Abderrahmane Sissako, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Fanta Régina Nacro, Alain Gomis, Newton I. Aduaka, Jean-Pierre Bekolo and Mati Diop, who have begun to reassess and embrace the concept of cinematic beauty by not reducing it to ideological critique or the old ideals of pan-Africanism. Locating the aesthetic within a range of critical fields - the rupturing of narrative spectacle and violence by montage, the archives of the everyday in the "afropolis", the plurivocal mysteries of sound and language, male intimacy and desire, the borderzones of migration and transcultural drift - this study reveals the possibility for new, non-conceptual kinds of beauty in African cinema: abstract, material, migrant, erotic, convulsive, queer. Through close readings of key works such as Life on Earth (1998), The Night of Truth (2004), Bamako (2006), Daratt (Dry Season) (2006), A Screaming Man (2010), Tey (Today) (2012), The Pirogue (2012), Mille soleils (2013) and Timbuktu (2014), Williams argues that contemporary African filmmakers are proposing propitious, ethical forms of relationality and intersubjectivity. These stimulate new modes of cultural resistance and transformation that serve to redefine the transnational and the cosmopolitan as well as the very notion of the political in postcolonial art cinema."-- |
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Provided by publisher. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Aesthetics, African. |
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18059 |
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Motion picture industry |
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Africa. |
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18060 |
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Film theory & criticism |
| 653 #0 - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
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Aesthetics |
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African Politics (Politics) |
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Film and Media Studies - Other |
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Film Directors |
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Language |
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Media Ethics |
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Migration |
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Politics - Other (Politics) |
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Sound Studies |
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World Cinema |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350105041?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections">https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350105041?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections</a> |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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e-Book |
