Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty Contributor(s): Williams, James S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1784533351 ISBN-13: 9781784533359 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Social Science | Popular Culture - Philosophy | Aesthetics |
Series: World Cinema |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.60 lbs) 376 pages |
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Publisher Description: Since 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 R gina 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Williams, James S.: - JAMES S. WILLIAMS is Professor of Modern French Literature and Film at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of monographs on Marguerite Duras, Albert Camus and Jean Cocteau, and has co-edited Gay Signatures: gay and lesbian theory, fiction and film in France, 1945-1995 (1998) and Gender and French Cinema (2001), as well as volumes on Jean-Luc Godard including The Cinema Alone (2000), For Ever Godard (2004), and Jean-Luc Godard: Documents (2006). He is currently completing a book entitled Space and Being in Contemporary French Cinema for Manchester University Press. |