Anjali Prabhu

Gebundenes Buch

Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora

Beschreibung

Analyzing art house films from the African continent and theAfrican diaspora, this book showcases a new generation of auteurswith African origins from political, aesthetic, and spectatorshipperspectives.

Focuses on art house cinema and discusses commercial Africancinema
Enlarges our understanding of African film to include thematicand aesthetic influence
Highlights aesthetic and political aspects including racialidentity, women's issues, and diaspora
Heavily illustrated with over 90 film stills
Features selected stills integral to the filmic analysis infull color
Moves beyond Western-oriented analytical paradigms

Autor

Anjali Prabhu is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Wellesley College, USA, where she also teaches in the Cinema and Media Studies Program. The author of Hybridity: Limits, Transformations, Prospects (2007), she has published widely in journals such as Cinema Journal, International Journal of French and Francophone Studies, Levinas Studies, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, Diacritics, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literatures, Présence Francophone, and Comparative Literature Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 180mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781405193047
• ISBN-10: 1405193042
• Artikelnr.: 39381126