Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema The Politics of Beauty 1st Edition by James Williams 1784533351 9781784533359

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ISBN 10: 1784533351
ISBN 13: 9781784533359
Author: James Williams

Shortlisted for the R. Gapper Book Prize 2020 Since the beginnings of African cinema, the realm of beauty on screen has been treated with suspicion by directors and critics alike. James S. Williams explores an exciting new generation of African directors, including Abderrahmane Sissako, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Fanta Régina Nacro, Alain Gomis, Newton I. Aduaka, Jean-Pierre Bekolo and Mati Diop, who have begun to reassess and embrace the concept of cinematic beauty by not reducing it to ideological critique or the old ideals of pan-Africanism. Locating the aesthetic within a range of critical fields – the rupturing of narrative spectacle and violence by montage, the archives of the everyday in the ‘afropolis’, the plurivocal mysteries of sound and language, male intimacy and desire, the borderzones of migration and transcultural drift – this study reveals the possibility for new, non-conceptual kinds of beauty in African cinema: abstract, material, migrant, erotic, convulsive, queer. Through close readings of key works such as Life on Earth (1998), The Night of Truth (2004), Bamako (2006), Daratt (Dry Season) (2006), A Screaming Man (2010), Tey (Today) (2012), The Pirogue (2012), Mille soleils (2013) and Timbuktu (2014), Williams argues that contemporary African filmmakers are proposing propitious, ethical forms of relationality and intersubjectivity. These stimulate new modes of cultural resistance and transformation that serve to redefine the transnational and the cosmopolitan as well as the very notion of the political in postcolonial art cinema.

Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema 1st Table of contents

Chapter 1 The trouble with beauty: Reimagining African film aesthetics
Chapter 2 On the front line: In/visible violence, formations of style and aesthetic resistance
Chapter 3 Screening Dakar: Locating beauty in the afropolis
Chapter 4 Voice, language, mystery: From ideological struggle to aesthetic shudder
Chapter 5 Queering the Baobab: Male intimacy, the erotics of abstraction and the right to beauty
Chapter 6 On the border, becoming world: Migrant beauty, migratory narratives and the transmigration
Chapter 7 The afropolitan present

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