Reframing Africa? : : Reflections on Modernity and the Moving Image / / edited by Cynthia Kros and Pervaiz Auguiste.

• TeilnehmendeR: Kros, Cynthia,; Auguiste, Pervaiz,
• Place / Publishing House: Cape Town, South Africa : : African Minds,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 pages)

This book takes readers on a series of stimulating intellectual journeys from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era to explore notions of modernity in the production and reception of the African moving image and of African archival practices. Ideas are presented from multiple historical and contemporary perspectives, while inviting new voices to participate in discussions about the future of the African moving image. Reframing Africa? makes a plea for the recognition, preservation and repatriation of the African moving image archive, advancing ideas about how it speaks to contemporary Africans, possessed of the power to elucidate their lived experiences and to reorientate perceptions of the past, present and future. On the basis of this wide-ranging appreciation of the archive, the book charts a way forward for African-inflected film studies as well as other programmes in the humanities and social sciences.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknolwedgements -- Preface -- 01 The Reframing Africa Audio-Visual Project -- 02 Cinema, Imperial Conquest, Modernity -- 03 Reflections on Ciné-archival Studies and the Dispositif in Africa -- 04 Reframing Film Studies in Africa: Towards New Pedagogic Terrains -- 05 Movements of War: Film as Apparatus of Inscription and Transmission -- 06 Reading Gestures in De Voortrekkers -- 07 Reframing South African Cinema History: Modernity, the New Africa Movement and Beyond -- 08 The Foxy Five: Woke Politics and Participatory Culture -- 09 Cinemas of Dis/agreement: Contemporary Afrikaner Dramas -- 10 African Cinemas across African Borders: Bridging the Gap between North Africa and Africa South of the Sahara -- 11 African Moving Image at the Intersection of Cinema and Television -- 12 A New Becoming: Towards an African Time-based Media Practice -- 13 Opening the Way for Further Readings and Reframings -- Glossary -- About the contributors.