Olivier-Jean Tchouaffe

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• 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
Chapter5: Heremakono (2002): On African Imaginative Landscapes, Frontiers,
and Journeys
Chapter6: 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 Speaking
About the Author