Trash: African cinema from below
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 understan ...
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- Publication Date:2013.
- Edition:Online-ausg
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Indiana University Press
- Place of Publication:Bloomington
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 327 Seiten)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780253007575, 0253007577, 9780253007445, 0253007445, 9780253007513, 0253007518
- oclc:ocn903280622
- LC Classification:PN1993.5.A35
- Dewey Decimal:791.43096
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