Postnationalist African Cinemas

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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Postnationalist African cinemas convincingly interrogates the ways in which African narratives locate postcolonial identities and forms beyond essentially nationalist frameworks. It investigates how the emergence of new genres, discourses and representations, all unrelated to an overtly nationalist project, influences the formal choices made by contemporary directors. By foregrounding the narrative, generic, discursive, representational and aesthetic structures of films, this book shows how directors are beginning to regard film as a popular form of entertainment rather than political praxis. Tcheuyap investigates filmic genres such as comedy, dance, crime and epic alongside cultural aspects including witchcraft, sexuality, pornography and oracles.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-04-01
Mått138 x 216 x 22 mm
Vikt376 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9780719083365

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List of imagesAcknowledgements Introduction: African cinema, nationalism and its discontentsi African cinema and national(ist) constructionsii Wealth and poverty of nationalist scholarshipiii Postnational(ist) imaginary and new paradigms1. Comedy and filmi Comedic archetypesii Verbal and visual comedy2. Choreographing subjectsi Dance on stage ii Dance, syntax, and discourse3. Crimes, society and the “commandement”i Africa and theories of (impossible) crime fictionii Absent investigation and the triumph of the commandementiii Flawed investigations and the decline of the commandement 4. Myth, tragedy, and cinemai On African cultural “specificity” and tragic formsii Oedipal conflicts, enemy brothers, and families in crisisiii Absolutism, oracles and the tragic5. Epic constructions i Narrative performanceii Epic magnification 6. (Un)masked sexualityi African sexuality as category of analysisii Sex in the nation and the trouble with representationiii Framing bodies and the temptation of pornography7. Witchcraft and the postcoloniali From sorcery imaginary to the imaginary sorcererii Occult side of power, power of the occultConclusion: What is African cinema (today)?BibliographyFilmography