Trash : African cinema from below

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

Highlighting what is melodramatic, flashy, low, and gritty in the characters, images, and plots of African cinema, the author 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harrow, Kenneth W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Refuse and refuse disposal in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Africa.
ART > Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Motion pictures
Refuse and refuse disposal in motion pictures
Africa
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Table of Contents:
  • Bataille, Stam, and locations of trash
  • Rancière : aesthetics, its mésententes 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 vérité
  • 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.

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