Queer African cinemas

Queer African cinemas

by Green-Simms, Lindsey B.

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"In Queer African Cinemas, Lindsey B. Green-Simms examines films produced by and about queer Africans in the first two decades of the twenty-first century in an environment of increasing anti-queer violence, efforts to criminalize homosexuality, and other state-sanctioned homophobia. Green-Simms argues that these films not only record the fear, anxiety, and vulnerability many queer Africans experience; they highlight how queer African cinematic practices contribute to imagining new hopes and po…

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  • Full title :Queer African cinemas / Lindsey B Green-Simms.

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"In Queer African Cinemas, Lindsey B. Green-Simms examines films produced by and about queer Africans in the first two decades of the twenty-first century in an environment of increasing anti-queer violence, efforts to criminalize homosexuality, and other state-sanctioned homophobia. Green-Simms argues that these films not only record the fear, anxiety, and vulnerability many queer Africans experience; they highlight how queer African cinematic practices contribute to imagining new hopes and possibilities. Examining globally circulating international art films as well as popular melodramas made for local audiences, Green-Simms emphasizes that in these films queer resistance-contrary to traditional narratives about resistance that center overt and heroic struggle-is often practiced from a position of vulnerability. By reading queer films alongside discussions about censorship and audiences, Green-Simms renders queer African cinema as a rich visual archive that documents the difficulty of queer existence as well as the potentials for queer life-building and survival"--

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2022

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  • Description:xiii, 250 pages : illustrations : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781478015406, 1478015403, 9781478018018, 1478018011
  • oclc:on1312212219
  • LC Classification:PN1995.9.H55
  • Dewey Decimal:791.43/653

Table of Contents

Introduction: Registering resistance: the pluralities and possibilities of queer African cinemas -- 1. Making waves: queer eccentricity and West African wayward women -- 2. Touching Nollywood: from negation to negotiation in queer Nigerian cinema -- 3. Cutting masculinities: post-apartheid South African cinema -- 4. Holding space, saving joy: queer love and critical resilience in East Africa -- Coda: queer cinema's destiny

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Subjects

Africa Criticism, interpretation, etc Gays in motion pictures Homosexualité -- Au cinéma Homosexuality and motion pictures Homosexuality and motion pictures -- Af… Homosexuality in motion pictures Homosexuels au cinéma Motion pictures Motion pictures -- History and criticis…

Writers

Green-Simms, Lindsey B.

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