Trash: African Cinema from Below

by Kenneth W. Harrow

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253007518
• ISBN13: 9780253007513
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher