Queer African Cinemas.

• Superior document: A Camera Obscura Book Series
• Author: Green-Simms, Lindsey B.
• Place / Publishing House: Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2022.; Ã2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: A Camera Obscura Book Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (265 pages)

Lindsey B. Green-Simms examines films produced by and about queer Africans in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, showing how these films record the fear, anxiety, and vulnerability many queer Africans experience while at the same time imagining new hopes and possibilities.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Registering Resistance in Queer African Cinemas -- 1. Making Waves: Queer Eccentricity and West African Wayward Women -- 2. Touching Nollywood: From Negation to Negotiation in Queer Nigerian Cinema -- 3. Cutting Masculinities: Post-apartheid South African Cinema -- 4. Holding Space, Saving Joy: Queer Love and Critical Resilience in East Africa -- Coda: Queer African Cinema's Destiny -- Notes -- Filmograph -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.