Space and Time in African Cinema and Cine-scapes

ISBN-13: 9781032264707 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 272 str.

Kenneth W. Harrow

Opis

This book is the first of its kind to bring basic notions of contemporary physics to bear on African cine-scapes.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part One: Space and Relationality  1. Sembène Ousmane, "Borom Sarret" and Framing the Questions of Science  2. John Akomfrah, Nine Muses 3. Dyana Gaye, Des Etoiles  Part Two: Time  4. Time and Kentridge: Georges Méliès, "Le Voyage dans la lune" and William Kentridge, "The Refusal of Time," "Felix in Exile"  5. Abbas Kiarostami, ABC Africa and 24 Frames  6. Chris Marker, Sans Soleil  7. Mati Diop, Mille Soleils  Conclusion

O autorze

Kenneth W. Harrow is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of English at Michigan State University. His work focuses on African cinema and literature, Diaspora and Postcolonial Studies. He is the author of Thresholds of Change in African Literature, Less Than One and Double: A Feminist Reading of African Women’s Writing, Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism, and Trash! A Study of African Cinema Viewed from Below. He has edited numerous collections on such topics as Islam and African literature, African cinema, and women in African literature and cinema, including, with Carmela Garritano, A Companion to African Film.