Since the beginnings of African cinema, the realm of beauty on
screen has been treated with suspicion by directors and critics
alike. James S. Williams explores an exciting new generation of
African directors, including Abderrahmane Sissako, Mahamat-Saleh
Haroun, Fanta Regina Nacro, Alain Gomis, Newton I. Aduaka,
Jean-Pierre Bekolo and Mati Diop, who have begun to reassess and
embrace the concept of cinematic beauty by not reducing it to
ideological critique or the old ideals of pan-Africanism. Locating
the aesthetic within a range of critical fields - the rupturing of
narrative spectacle and violence by montage, the archives of the
everyday in the 'afropolis', the plurivocal mysteries of sound and
language, male intimacy and desire, the borderzones of migration
and transcultural drift - this study reveals the possibility for
new, non-conceptual kinds of beauty in African cinema: abstract,
material, migrant, erotic, convulsive, queer. Through close
readings of key works such as Life on Earth (1998), The Night of
Truth (2004), Bamako (2006), Daratt (Dry Season) (2006), A
Screaming Man (2010), Tey (Today) (2012), The Pirogue (2012), Mille
soleils (2013) and Timbuktu (2014), Williams argues that
contemporary African filmmakers are proposing propitious, ethical
forms of relationality and intersubjectivity. These stimulate new
modes of cultural resistance and transformation that serve to
redefine the transnational and the cosmopolitan as well as the very
notion of the political in postcolonial art cinema.
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