John Akomfrah

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvJames Harvey

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The films of John Akomfrah represent one of the most significant bodies of artistic production in the post-war era in Britain, yet little attempt has been made to analyse the consistencies and divergences across them.James Harvey’s John Akomfrah is the first comprehensive analytic engagement with these films, offering sustained close engagement with the artist’s core thematic preoccupations and aesthetic tendencies. His analysis negotiates the contextual and theoretical layers of Akomfrah’s rich and complex films, from the intermedial diaspora aesthetics of Handsworth Songs (1986) to the intersectional spatial ecopolitics of Purple (2017).Positioning Akomfrah in the burgeoning black British arts and cultural scene of the 1980s as a member of Black Audio Film Collective, Harvey traces the evolution of a critical relationship with the postcolonial archive in his early films, through analysis of documentaries made for television in the 1990s and up to more recent film installations in museums and galleries.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-09-07
Mått158 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt760 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor280
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781839023224

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AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: Positioning John Akomfrah1.The Ghosts of Other Stories: Thatcherism and Postcolonial Britain2.Black Stars: From Racial Iconicity to Black Atlantic Collectivity3.Memory-images: Catharsis, Embodiment and the Aesthetics of Remembrance4.Why They Come: Migration Films in the Age of ‘Refugee Crisis’5.Changing Site, Changing Sight: The Spatial Turn6.Water, Earth, Elephants: The Human Destruction Trilogy as Political Ecology7.‘Staking Claims on the Real’: An Interview with John AkomfrahNotesBibliographyIndex

James Harvey's dextrous, perceptive account of John Akomfrah's extraordinary contributions to cinema is a rich and invaluable work of scholarship. Spanning the full breadth of Akomfrah's career to date - from ground-breaking works with the Black Audio Film Collective to more recent gallery installation pieces - Harvey adopts a productive thematic approach, identifying formal and political links between individual works, and between Akomfrah and a variety of other artists, filmmakers and thinkers. Throughout, Harvey repeatedly returns to Akomfrah's deployment of archive materials and of montage techniques, pinpointing the manifold ways in which Akomfrah has innovated with both. This highly readable book is a significant contribution to the study of Black British cinema, experimental and avant-garde film, and the politics of the diaspora.