Notes on Contributors xIntroduction: Critical Approaches to Africa's Cinema, From the Age of Liberation and Struggle to the Global, Popular, and Curatorial 1Kenneth W. Harrow and Carmela GarritanoPart I Time/Crisis/Uncertainty 211 Cinematic Economies of the Hypercontemporary in Haroun and Sissako 23Justin Izzo2 Approaching the Uncertain Turn in African Video-Movies: Subalternity, Superfluity, and (Non-)Cinematic Time 44Jacques de Villiers3 Life in Cinematic Urban Africa: Inertia, Suspension, Flow 69Karen BouwerPart II Trauma/Violence/Precarity in an Age of Global Neoliberalism 894 At the Intersection of Trauma, Precarity, and African Cinema: A Reflection on Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Grigris 91MaryEllen Higgins5 Reframing Human Rights: Hotel Rwanda (2004), A Screaming Man (2010), Global Conflict, and International Intervention 112Dayna Oscherwitz6 "The Invisible Government of the Powerful": Joseph Gaï Ramaka's Cinema of Power 136Akin AdesokanPart III Sound/Form/Dub 1557 Transcultural Language Intimacies: The Linguistic Domestication of Indian Films in the Hausa Language 157Abdalla Uba Adamu8 The (Aural) Life of Neo-colonial Space 176Vlad Dima9 "Outcast Orders" and the Imagining of a Queer African Cinema: A Fugitive, Afro-Jazz Reading of Karmen Geï 194Lindsey Green-SimmsPart IV Platforms/Informality/Archives 21710 Streaming Quality, Streaming Cinema 219Moradewun Adejunmobi11 Between the Informal Sector and Transnational Capitalism: Transformations of Nollywood 244Jonathan Haynes12 Nollywood Chronicles: Migrant Archives, Media Archeology, and the Itineraries of Taste 269Noah TsikaPart V National Industries/Media Cities/Transnational Flows 29113 African Videoscapes: Southern Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Côte d'Ivoire in Comparative Perspective 293Alessandro Jedlowski14 Nairobi-based Female Filmmakers: Screen Media Production between the Local and the Transnational 315Robin SteedmanPart VI Genre/Poetics/Gender 33715 Darker Vision: Global Cinema and Twenty-first-Century Moroccan Film Noir 339Suzanne Gauch16 From Ethnography to Essay: Realism, Reflexivity, and African Documentary Film 358Rachel Gabara17 New Algerian Cinema: Portrayals of Women in Films Post-Les années noires 379Valérie K. Orlando18 "Qu'elle aille explorer le possible!": Or African Cinema according to Jean-Pierre Bekolo 402P. Julie PapaioannouPart VII Movement/Fluidity and Aesthetics/Migration 42119 Relational Histories in African Cinema 423Sheila Petty20 Crossing Lines: Frontiers, Circulations, and Identity in Contemporary African and Diaspora Film 444Melissa ThackwayPart VIII The End of Film Criticism?: The New Beginning of Curation and Bricolage 46521 Towards Alternative Histories and Herstories of African Filmmaking: From Bricolage to the "Curatorial Turn" in African Film Scholarship 467Lindiwe DoveyIndex 486
Kenneth W. Harrow is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Michigan State University with specializations in African literature and cinema. He has taught in the Université de Yaounde, Cameroon and l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal.Carmela Garritano is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Film Studies at Texas A&M University. Her research has been supported by Fulbright IIE and the West African Research Association.