{"product_id":"trash-african-cinema-from-below-paperback-softback-9780253007513","title":"Trash; African Cinema from Below (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253007513","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTrash\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAfrican Cinema from Below\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKenneth W. Harrow (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253007513\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 9 April 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages, 44 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Reading these films in this manner becomes a metaphor of how one must understand African nations in a global context . . . . highly original and deeply historicized.\"—Frieda Ekotto, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Michigan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Kenneth W. Harrow's Trash . . . is a timely intervention in the theorization of African cinema. It is an impassioned and committed interrogation of hybridity, syncretism and cross-fertilizaiton in postcolonial cinema and one that seeks to both celebrate and renegotiate the image of the marginalized and the discarded.5.2 2014\"—\u003ci\u003eTransnational Cinemas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Trash brings about a fresh perspective that figures African cinema as a type of mirror of condition, a kind of cinema verité that disrupts the aesthetics of necropolitics—whether from the north or the south—and the aesthetic order of high cinema.\"—\u003ci\u003eAfrican Arts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Harrow's engaging book offers readers a glimpse into the trash heaps . . . squalor, and poverty that have often been depicted in African cinema since independence, but which have rarely been the object of critical study.April 2014\"—\u003ci\u003eAfrican Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Trash inspires a rigorous questioning of how we think about 'Africa from below' in our scholarly research: it is a speculative, probing, provocative book filled with questions about power, exclusion, representation, and subjectivity, and about how African cinema engages social realities without necessarily serving up palatable dishes of realism or political critique.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of African History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This book is a work of erudition, understanding, engagement, and enthusiastic committment to African cinema studies and literature. . . . Highly recommended.\"—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighlighting 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 capitalism has bred a culture of materiality and waste that now pervades African film. He posits that a view from below permits a way to understand the tropes of trash present in African cinematic imagery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Bataille, Stam, and Locations of Trash\u003cbr\u003e 2. Rancière: Aesthetics, Its Mésententes and Discontents\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Out-of-Place Scene of Trash\u003cbr\u003e 4. Globalization's Dumping Groun:, The Case of Trafigura\u003cbr\u003e 5. Agency and the Mosquito: Mitchell and Chakrabarty\u003cbr\u003e 6. Trashy Women: Karmen Gei, l'Oiseau Rebelle\u003cbr\u003e 7. Trashy Women, Fallen Men: Fanta Nacro's \"Puk Nini\" and La Nuit de la vérité \u003cbr\u003e 8. Opening the Distribution of the Sensible: Kimberly Rivers and Trouble the Water\u003cbr\u003e 9. Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako and the Image: Trash in Its Materiality\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Counter-Archive for a New Postcolonial Order: O Herói and Daratt \u003cbr\u003e 11. Nollywood and Its Masks: Fela, Osuofia in London, and Butler's Assujetissement\u003cbr\u003e 12. Trash's Last Leaves: Nollywood, Nollywood, Nollywood\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Filmography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52694812492056,"sku":"9780253007513","price":22.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/trash-african-cinema-from-below-paperback-softback-9780253007513","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}