{"product_id":"ethics-and-aesthetics-in-contemporary-african-cinema-the-politics-of-beauty-paperback","title":"Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames S. Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJulian Ross\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eLúcia Nagib\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the beginnings of African cinema, the realm of beauty on screen has been treated with suspicion by directors and critics alike. James S. Williams explores an exciting new generation of African directors, including Abderrahmane Sissako, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Fanta Régina Nacro, Alain Gomis, Newton I. Aduaka, Jean-Pierre Bekolo and Mati Diop, who have begun to reassess and embrace the concept of cinematic beauty by not reducing it to ideological critique or the old ideals of pan-Africanism. \u003cbr\u003eLocating the aesthetic within a range of critical fields - the rupturing of narrative spectacle and violence by montage, the archives of the everyday in the 'afropolis', the plurivocal mysteries of sound and language, male intimacy and desire, the borderzones of migration and transcultural drift - this study reveals the possibility for new, non-conceptual kinds of beauty in African cinema: abstract, material, migrant, erotic, convulsive, queer. Through close readings of key works such as \u003ci\u003eLife on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), \u003ci\u003eThe Night of Truth\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), \u003ci\u003eBamako \u003c\/i\u003e(2006), \u003ci\u003eDaratt\u003c\/i\u003e (Dry Season) (2006), \u003ci\u003eA Screaming Man\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), \u003ci\u003eTey\u003c\/i\u003e (Today) (2012), \u003ci\u003eThe Pirogue\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), \u003ci\u003eMille soleils\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and \u003ci\u003eTimbuktu \u003c\/i\u003e(2014), Williams argues that contemporary African filmmakers are proposing propitious, ethical forms of relationality and intersubjectivity. These stimulate new modes of cultural resistance and transformation that serve to redefine the transnational and the cosmopolitan as well as the very notion of the political in postcolonial art cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames S. Williams\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Modern French Literature and Film at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eEncounters with Godard: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), \u003ci\u003eSpace and Being in Contemporary French Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and \u003ci\u003eJean Cocteau\u003c\/i\u003e (2008). He is also co-editor of \u003ci\u003eMay 68: Rethinking France's Last Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e (2011, with Anna-Louise Milne and Julian T. Jackson), \u003ci\u003eFor Ever Godard\u003c\/i\u003e (2004, with Michael Temple and Michael Witt) and \u003ci\u003eGender and French Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (2001, with Alex Hughes).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 376\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 17, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51790324826400,"sku":"9781350194403","price":84.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/48f7d22c8e4038acc9de0e5acca7ef13.webp?v=1780674718","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/ethics-and-aesthetics-in-contemporary-african-cinema-the-politics-of-beauty-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}