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Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty (World Cinema) by James Stuart Williams is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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
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- Author
- James Stuart Williams
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury USA Academic
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781784533366
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Philosophy, History
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