Trash
African Cinema from Below
Published on 9. April 2013
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-0-253-00744-5 (ISBN)
Description
Highlighting what is melodramatic, flashy, low, and gritty in the characters, images, and plots of African cinema, Kenneth W. Harrow 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 post-colonialism, he employs the disruptive notion of trash to propose a destabilizing aesthetics of African cinema. Harrow argues that the spread of commodity capitalism has bred a culture of materiality and waste that now pervades African film. He posits that a view from below permits a way to understand the tropes of trash present in African cinematic imagery.
Reviews / Votes
"Reading these films in this manner becomes a metaphor of how one must understand African nations in a global context... highly original and deeply historicized." Frieda Ekotto, University of MichiganMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-253-00744-5 (9780253007445)
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E-Book
04/2013
Indiana University Press
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Content
Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction 1. Bataille, Stam, and Locations of Trash; 2. Ranciere: Aesthetics, Its Mesententes and Discontents; 3. The Out of Place Scene of Trash; 4. Globalization's Dumping Ground, The Case of Trafigura; 5. Agency and the Mosquito: Mitchell and Chakrabarty; 6. Trashy Women: Karmen Gei, l'Oiseau Rebelle; 7. Trashy Women, Fallen Men: Fanta Nacro's "Puk Nini" and La Nuit de la verite; 8. Nollywood and Its Masks. Fela, Osuofia in London and Butler's Assujetissement; 9. Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako and the Image: Trash in Its Materiality; 10. The Counter-Archive for a New Postcolonial Order: O Heroi and Daratt; 11.Nollywood and Its Masks. Fela, Osuofia in London and Butler's Assujetissement; 12. Trash's Last Leaves: Nollywood, Nollywood, Nollywood Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index