Alexie Tcheuyap

Postnationalist African Cinemas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Postnationalist African cinemas convincingly interrogates the ways in which African narratives locate postcolonial identities and forms beyond essentially nationalist frameworks. It investigates how the emergence of new genres, discourses and representations, all unrelated to an overtly nationalist project, influences the formal choices made by contemporary directors. By foregrounding the narrative, generic, discursive, representational and aesthetic structures of films, this book shows how directors are beginning to regard film as a popular form of entertainment rather than political praxis. Tcheuyap investigates filmic genres such as comedy, dance, crime and epic alongside cultural aspects including witchcraft, sexuality, pornography and oracles.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lund University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780719083365
• ISBN-10: 0719083362
• Artikelnr.: 33615468

Autorenporträt

Alexie Tcheuyap is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

List of images Acknowledgements Introduction: African cinema, nationalism
and its discontents i African cinema and national(ist) constructions ii
Wealth and poverty of nationalist scholarship iii Postnational(ist)
imaginary and new paradigms 1. Comedy and film i Comedic archetypes ii
Verbal and visual comedy 2. Choreographing subjects i Dance on stage ii
Dance, syntax, and discourse 3. Crimes, society and the "commandement" i
Africa and theories of (impossible) crime fiction ii Absent investigation
and the triumph of the commandement iii Flawed investigations and the
decline of the commandement 4. Myth, tragedy, and cinema i On African
cultural "specificity" and tragic forms ii Oedipal conflicts, enemy
brothers, and families in crisis iii Absolutism, oracles and the tragic 5.
Epic constructions i Narrative performance ii Epic magnification 6.
(Un)masked sexuality i African sexuality as category of analysis ii Sex in
the nation and the trouble with representation iii Framing bodies and the
temptation of pornography 7. Witchcraft and the postcolonial i From sorcery
imaginary to the imaginary sorcerer ii Occult side of power, power of the
occult Conclusion: What is African cinema (today)? Bibliography Filmography