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Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema - (World Cinema) by James S Williams (Paperback)

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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.
  • About the Author: James S. Williams is Professor of Modern French Literature and Film at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
  • 376 Pages
  • Performing Arts, Film
  • Series Name: World Cinema

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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) and Timbuktu(2014), Williams argues that contemporary African filmmakers are proposing propitious, ethical forms of relationality and intersubjectivity. These stimulate new modes of cultural resistance and transformation that serve to redefine the transnational and the cosmopolitan as well as the very notion of the political in postcolonial art cinema.



About the Author



James S. Williams is Professor of Modern French Literature and Film at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of Encounters with Godard: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics (2016), Space and Being in Contemporary French Cinema (2013) and Jean Cocteau (2008). He is also co-editor of May 68: Rethinking France's Last Revolution (2011, with Anna-Louise Milne and Julian T. Jackson), For Ever Godard (2004, with Michael Temple and Michael Witt) and Gender and French Cinema (2001, with Alex Hughes).
Dimensions (Overall): 9.21 Inches (H) x 6.14 Inches (W) x .78 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.16 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 376
Genre: Performing Arts
Sub-Genre: Film
Series Title: World Cinema
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Theme: History & Criticism
Format: Paperback
Author: James S Williams
Language: English
Street Date: September 17, 2020
TCIN: 94296521
UPC: 9781350194403
Item Number (DPCI): 247-41-4866
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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