Trash: African Cinema from Below - Softcover

Harrow, Kenneth W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253007518 ISBN 13: 9780253007513

Verlag: Indiana University Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

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 understand the tropes of trash present in African cinematic imagery.

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Kenneth W. Harrow is Distinguished Professor of English at Michigan State University. He is author of Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism (IUP, 2007).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0253007518
• ISBN 13: 9780253007513
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344
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