Olivier-Jean Tchouaffe

The Poetics of Radical Hope in Abderrahmane Sissako's Film Experience

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores Sissako's original cinematic vision, which tackles complex in-depth African realities with the power of imaginative excellence. Sissako's work defies existing normative global geopolitics and conditions of knowledge and aesthetic production in Africa through radical hope and creative adaptation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 397g
• ISBN-13: 9781498539814
• ISBN-10: 1498539815
• Artikelnr.: 47706207

Autorenporträt

Olivier J. Tchouaffe is professor of film at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: On the Genealogy of the Camera-Eye and Sissako's Poetic
Possibilities Chapter 1: Mapping the Theoretical Terrain: Cinema,
Sensor-Ship, and the Search for Authenticity in the Age of Neoliberal
Rationalities and Islamic Terror Chapter 2: The Camera-Eye, The Arte wave
and Afro-Futurism Part II: Aesthetic and Film Analysis Chapter 3: Sissako's
Cinema: Communal Life as an Aesthetic Practice Chapter 4: Life on Earth
(1998): Meditation on Belonging in a Globalized World Chapter 5: Heremakono
(2002): On African Imaginative Landscapes, Frontiers, and Journeys Chapter
6: Bamako (2007): Africa, Cowboys, and Postcolonial Economic Blues. Chapter
7: Timbuktu (2015): Notes on Art, Terror, and Cosmopolitan Politics Chapter
8: Conclusion: Marginal Subjectivities and Globalization: The Subaltern
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