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Trash : African Cinema from Below by Kenneth W. Harrow (2013, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherIndiana University Press
ISBN-100253007518
ISBN-139780253007513
eBay Product ID (ePID)112601634
Product Key Features
Number of Pages264 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameTrash : African Cinema from below
Publication Year2013
SubjectPopular Culture, Film / History & Criticism
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPerforming Arts, Social Science
AuthorKenneth W. Harrow
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight17 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width7.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2012-037383
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsThis book is a work of erudition, understanding, engagement, and enthusiastic committment to African cinema studies and literature. . . . Highly recommended., Reading these films in this manner becomes a metaphor of how one must understand African nations in a global context.... highly original and deeply historicized., Kenneth W. Harrow's Trash . . . is a timely intervention in the theorization of African cinema. It is an impassioned and committed interrogation of hybridity, syncretism and cross-fertilizaiton in postcolonial cinema and one that seeks to both celebrate and renegotiate the image of the marginalized and the discarded.5.2 2014, Reading these films in this manner becomes a metaphor of how one must understand African nations in a global context.... highly original and deeply historicized.--Frieda Ekotto, University of Michigan, Harrow's engaging book offers readers a glimpse into the trash heaps . . . squalor, and poverty that have often been depicted in African cinema since independence, but which have rarely been the object of critical study.April 2014, "Harrow's engaging book offers readers a glimpse into the trash heaps... squalor, and poverty that have often been depicted in African cinema since independence, but which have rarely been the object of critical study." --African Studies Review, "Reading these films in this manner becomes a metaphor of how one must understand African nations in a global context.... highly original and deeply historicized." Frieda Ekotto, University of Michigan, "Reading these films in this manner becomes a metaphor of how one must understand African nations in a global context . . . . highly original and deeply historicized."--Frieda Ekotto, University of Michigan "Kenneth W. Harrow's Trash . . . is a timely intervention in the theorization of African cinema. It is an impassioned and committed interrogation of hybridity, syncretism and cross-fertilizaiton in postcolonial cinema and one that seeks to both celebrate and renegotiate the image of the marginalized and the discarded.5.2 2014"-- Transnational Cinemas "Trash brings about a fresh perspective that figures African cinema as a type of mirror of condition, a kind of cinema verité that disrupts the aesthetics of necropolitics--whether from the north or the south--and the aesthetic order of high cinema."-- African Arts "Harrow's engaging book offers readers a glimpse into the trash heaps . . . squalor, and poverty that have often been depicted in African cinema since independence, but which have rarely been the object of critical study.April 2014"-- African Studies Review "Trash inspires a rigorous questioning of how we think about 'Africa from below' in our scholarly research: it is a speculative, probing, provocative book filled with questions about power, exclusion, representation, and subjectivity, and about how African cinema engages social realities without necessarily serving up palatable dishes of realism or political critique."-- Journal of African History "This book is a work of erudition, understanding, engagement, and enthusiastic committment to African cinema studies and literature. . . . Highly recommended."-- Choice, "Kenneth W. Harrow's Trash... is a timely intervention in the theorization of African cinema. It is an impassioned and committed interrogation of hybridity, syncretism and cross-fertilizaiton in postcolonial cinema and one that seeks to both celebrate and renegotiate the image of the marginalized and the discarded." --Transnational Cinemas, "Trash brings about a fresh perspective that figures African cinema as a type of mirror of condition, a kind of cinema verité that disrupts the aesthetics of necropolitics--whether from the north or the south--and the aesthetic order of high cinema." --African Arts
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal791.43096
Table Of ContentPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Bataille, Stam, and Locations of Trash 2. Rancière: Aesthetics, Its Mésententes and Discontents 3. The Out-of-Place Scene of Trash 4. Globalization's Dumping Groun:, The Case of Trafigura 5. Agency and the Mosquito: Mitchell and Chakrabarty 6. Trashy Women: Karmen Gei, l'Oiseau Rebelle 7. Trashy Women, Fallen Men: Fanta Nacro's "Puk Nini" and La Nuit de la vérité 8. Opening the Distribution of the Sensible: Kimberly Rivers and Trouble the Water 9. Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako and the Image: Trash in Its Materiality 10. The Counter-Archive for a New Postcolonial Order: O Herói and Daratt 11. Nollywood and Its Masks: Fela, Osuofia in London, and Butler's Assujetissement 12. Trash's Last Leaves: Nollywood, Nollywood, Nollywood Notes Bibliography Filmography Index
SynopsisHe posits that a view from below permits a way to understand the tropes of trash present in African cinematic imagery., 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.
LC Classification NumberPN1993.5.A35
