Trash : African cinema from below / Kenneth W. Harrow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrow, Kenneth W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refuse and refuse disposal in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Africa.

Motion pictures.

Africa.

Physical Description:

xii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Bataille, Stam, and locations of trash

Rancière: aesthetics, its mésententes and discontents

The out-of-place scene of trash

Globalization's dumping ground: the case of Trafigura

Agency and the mosquito: Mitchell and Chakrabarty

Trashy women: Karmen Gei, L'Oiseau Rebelle

Trashy women, fallen men: Fanta Nacro's "Puk Nini" and La nuit de la vérité

Opening the distribution of the sensible: Kimberly Rivers and Trouble the water

Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako and the image: trash in its materiality

The counter-archive for a new postcolonial order: O Herói and Daratt

Nollywood and its masks: Fela, Osuofia in London, and Butler's Assujetissement

Trash's last leaves: Nollywood, Nollywood, Nollywood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-318) and index.

ISBN:

9780253007445

0253007445

9780253007513

0253007518

9780253007575

0253007577

OCLC:

810039784