Trash : African cinema from below / Kenneth W. Harrow.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harrow, Kenneth W.
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013], ©2013.
Subjects:
Refuse and refuse disposal in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Africa.
Local Note:
MSU Faculty Book Collelction
Physical Description:xii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Bataille, Stam, and locations of trash
  • Rancière: aesthetics, its mésententes and discontents
  • The out-of-place scene of trash
  • Globalization's dumping ground: the case of Trafigura
  • Agency and the mosquito: Mitchell and Chakrabarty
  • Trashy women: Karmen Gei, L'Oiseau Rebelle
  • Trashy women, fallen men: Fanta Nacro's "Puk Nini" and La nuit de la vérité
  • Opening the distribution of the sensible: Kimberly Rivers and Trouble the water
  • Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako and the image: trash in its materiality
  • The counter-archive for a new postcolonial order: O Herói and Daratt
  • Nollywood and its masks: Fela, Osuofia in London, and Butler's Assujetissement
  • Trash's last leaves: Nollywood, Nollywood, Nollywood.