In this Book
- Trash: African Cinema from Below
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Indiana University Press
summary
Highlighting what is melodramatic, flashy, low, and gritty in the characters, images, and plots of African cinema, Kenneth W. Harrow uses trash as the unlikely metaphor to show how these films have depicted the globalized world. Rather than focusing on topics such as national liberation and postcolonialism, he employs the disruptive notion of trash to propose a destabilizing aesthetics of African cinema. Harrow argues that the spread of commodity capitalism has bred a culture of materiality and waste that now pervades African film. He posits that a view from below permits a way to understand the tropes of trash present in African cinematic imagery.
Table of Contents
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- Cover, Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 1-7
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-6
- 3. The Out-of-Place Scene of Trash
- pp. 57-83
- Bibliography
- pp. 311-318
- Filmography
- pp. 319-322
Additional Information
ISBN
9780253007575
Related ISBN(s)
9780253007445, 9780253007513
MARC Record
OCLC
834129217
Pages
264
Launched on MUSE
2013-05-20
Language
English
Open Access
No