Trash. African cinema from below

Trash. African cinema from below

by Harrow

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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 postcolonialism, 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…

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  • Full title :Trash. African cinema from below. / Kenneth W. Harrow.

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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 postcolonialism, 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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2012.

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  • Description:344 pages

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780253007445, 0253007445, 9780253007513, 0253007518
  • oclc:ocn794036281
  • LC Classification:PN1990-1997
  • Dewey Decimal:791

Subjects

Africa Afrika Civilisation au cinéma Civilization in motion pictures Film History Metaphor in motion pictures Métaphore au cinéma Motion pictures Motion pictures -- History. -- Africa

Writers

Harrow

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