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Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora

Autor A Prabhu
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 iun 2014
Analyzing art house films from the African continent and the African diaspora, this book showcases a new generation of auteurs with African origins from political, aesthetic, and spectatorship perspectives. * Focuses on art house cinema and discusses commercial African cinema * Enlarges our understanding of African film to include thematic and aesthetic influence * Highlights aesthetic and political aspects including racial identity, women's issues, and diaspora * Heavily illustrated with over 90 film stills * Features selected stills integral to the filmic analysis in full color * Moves beyond Western-oriented analytical paradigms
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781405193030
ISBN-10: 1405193034
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 177 x 241 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Undergraduate and graduate students of cinema, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and the humanities; scholars of African studies, including African literature, film, anthropology, history, culture and women s studies

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Notă biografică

Anjali Prabhu is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Wellesley College, USA, where she also teaches in the Cinema and Media Studies Program. The author of Hybridity: Limits, Transformations, Prospects (2007), she has published widely in journals such as Cinema Journal, International Journal of French and Francophone Studies, Levinas Studies, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, Diacitics, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literatures, Présence Francophone, and Comparative Literature Studies.

Descriere

The unique analysis of art house alongside discussion of commercial films from the African continent and the African diaspora presented here offer a fresh perspective on viewers experiences that highlights aesthetic and political issues.