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020			_a9781350105041
020			_z9781784533359 (hardback)
041			_aeng
082			_a791.43096 _223
100			_aWilliams, James S., _d1963- _eauthor. _918058
245			_aEthics and aesthetics in contemporary African cinema : _bthe politics of beauty / _cJames S. Williams.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aLondon, England : _bBloomsbury Publishing, _c2019.
300			_a1 online resource (xii, 363 pages.).
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"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."-- _cProvided by publisher.
650			_aAesthetics, African. _918059
650			_aMotion picture industry _zAfrica. _918060
650			_2Film theory & criticism
653		0	_aAesthetics
653		0	_aAfrican Politics (Politics)
653		0	_aFilm and Media Studies - Other
653		0	_aFilm Directors
653		0	_aLanguage
653		0	_aMedia Ethics
653		0	_aMigration
653		0	_aPolitics - Other (Politics)
653		0	_aSound Studies
653		0	_aWorld Cinema
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.5040/9781350105041?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
942			_cEBK
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