{"product_id":"ethics-and-aesthetics-in-contemporary-james-s-williams-9781350194403","title":"Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty","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馮ina 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James S. Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350194409\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350194403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.78d","brand":"James S. Williams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43942935003391,"sku":"9781350194403","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4a6109fc-4d96-4a80-8911-b5b1c67ef75a.jpg?v=1681495224","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ethics-and-aesthetics-in-contemporary-james-s-williams-9781350194403","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}