Harrow, Kenneth W.

Trash : African cinema from below / Kenneth W. Harrow. - Bloomington; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, c2013. - xii, 327 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-318) and index.

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.

9780253007445 (cl : alk. paper) 9780253007513 (pb : alk. paper) 9780253007575 (eb)

2012037383


Refuse and refuse disposal in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--Africa.

PN1993.5.A35 / H375 2013

791.43096