Cinemas of the Global South
eBook - ePub

Cinemas of the Global South

Towards a Southern Aesthetics

  1. 244 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Cinemas of the Global South

Towards a Southern Aesthetics

About this book

This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation; and as an arena of virtuality, creativity and change. It opens up a dialogue amongst scholars and filmmakers from the Global South: India, Nigeria, Colombia, Brazil, South Africa, and Egypt.

The essays in the volume approach cinema as an intertwined process of both production and perception not divorced from the economic, social, political and cultural. They emphasise film as a visual medium where form, structure and content are not separable. Through a wide array of film-readings, the authors explore the concept of a southern cinematic esthetics, in particular, and the concept of the Global South in general.

The volume will be of interest to scholars, students and researchers of film and media studies, critical theory, cultural studies and Global South studies.

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Yes, you can access Cinemas of the Global South by Dilip M Menon,Amir Taha in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Film History & Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Figures
  7. Contributors
  8. Preface and Acknowledgements
  9. 1 Cinemas of the Global South: Towards a Southern Aesthetics
  10. 2 Southern Aesthetics: The Egyptian Way: Shady Abdelsalam’s The Day of Counting the Years (1969)
  11. 3 Constellations of Time: Towards a Cartography of Plundered Memories
  12. 4 Singing in Saffron Times: Documentary Film and Resistance to Majoritarian Politics in India
  13. 5 Local Realism: Indian Independent Film as a Socio-political Medium
  14. 6 Indian Gangsters, American Noir and Africa’s Drum Magazine: The Making of a South African Gangster Fliek during Early Apartheid
  15. 7 Contagious Aesthetics: Bios, Politics and Cinema in Contemporary Kerala
  16. 8 Dealing with The Precarious City: Violence, Memory and Rhythms of Endurance in La sombra del caminante (Ciro Guerra 2005) & La sociedad del semáforo (Ruben Mendoza, 2010)
  17. 9 Cinematics of Southern Environmentalism
  18. Index