Meaninglessness: Time, Rhythm, and the Undead in Postcolonial Cinema

by Vlad Dima

Book Overview

For too long, the approach to seemingly universal experiences like love, death, and even time in film has been dominated by the Global North. But what if such explorations developed horizontally instead? Drawing from both European and African cultural theorists, including Gilles Deleuze and Wole Soyinka, Vlad Dima invites us to consider what happens to postcolonial African film if we no longer privilege the idea of time. How else might we understand...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611864380
• ISBN13: 9781611864380
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"