Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction: Critical Approaches to Africa’s Cinema, From the Age of Liberation and Struggle to the Global, Popular, and Curatorial 1Kenneth W. Harrow and Carmela Garritano
Part I Time/Crisis/Uncertainty 21
1 Cinematic Economies of the Hypercontemporary in Haroun and Sissako 23Justin Izzo
2 Approaching the Uncertain Turn in African Video‐Movies: Subalternity, Superfluity, and (Non‐)Cinematic Time 44Jacques de Villiers
3 Life in Cinematic Urban Africa: Inertia, Suspension, Flow 69Karen Bouwer
Part II Trauma/Violence/Precarity in an Age of Global Neoliberalism 89
4 At the Intersection of Trauma, Precarity, and African Cinema: A Reflection on Mahamat‐Saleh Haroun’s Grigris 91MaryEllen Higgins
5 Reframing Human Rights: Hotel Rwanda (2004), A Screaming Man (2010), Global Conflict, and International Intervention 112Dayna Oscherwitz
6 “The Invisible Government of the Powerful”: Joseph Gaï Ramaka’s Cinema of Power 136Akin Adesokan
Part III Sound/Form/Dub 155
7 Transcultural Language Intimacies: The Linguistic Domestication of Indian Films in the Hausa Language 157Abdalla Uba Adamu
8 The (Aural) Life of Neo‐colonial Space 176Vlad Dima
9 “Outcast Orders” and the Imagining of a Queer African Cinema: A Fugitive, Afro‐Jazz Reading of Karmen Geï 194Lindsey Green‐Simms
Part IV Platforms/Informality/Archives 217
10 Streaming Quality, Streaming Cinema 219Moradewun Adejunmobi
11 Between the Informal Sector and Transnational Capitalism: Transformations of Nollywood 244Jonathan Haynes
12 Nollywood Chronicles: Migrant Archives, Media Archeology, and the Itineraries of Taste 269Noah Tsika
Part V National Industries/Media Cities/Transnational Flows 291
13 African Videoscapes: Southern Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Côte d’Ivoire in Comparative Perspective 293Alessandro Jedlowski
14 Nairobi‐based Female Filmmakers: Screen Media Production between the Local and the Transnational 315Robin Steedman
Part VI Genre/Poetics/Gender 33715 Darker Vision: Global Cinema and Twenty‐first‐Century Moroccan Film Noir 339Suzanne Gauch
16 From Ethnography to Essay: Realism, Reflexivity, and African Documentary Film 358Rachel Gabara
17 New Algerian Cinema: Portrayals of Women in Films Post‐Les années noires 379Valérie K. Orlando
18 “Qu’elle aille explorer le possible!”: Or African Cinema according to Jean‐Pierre Bekolo 402P. Julie Papaioannou
Part VII Movement/Fluidity and Aesthetics/Migration 421
19 Relational Histories in African Cinema 423Sheila Petty
20 Crossing Lines: Frontiers, Circulations, and Identity in Contemporary African and Diaspora Film 444Melissa Thackway
Part VIII The End of Film Criticism?: The New Beginning of Curation and Bricolage 465
21 Towards Alternative Histories and Herstories of African Filmmaking: From Bricolage to the “Curatorial Turn” in African Film Scholarship 467Lindiwe Dovey
Index 486