| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : illustrations |
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A Camera Obscura book |
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Camera obscura book (Duke University Press)
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| Contents |
Registering Resistance: The Pluralities and Possibilities of Queer African Cinemas -- Making Waves: Queer Eccentricity and West African Wayward Women -- Touching Nollywood: From Negation to Negotiation in Queer Nigerian Cinema -- Cutting Masculinities: Post-Apartheid South African Cinema -- Holding Space, Saving Joy: Queer Love and Critical Resilience in East Africa -- Coda: Queer Cinema's Destiny (a view from 2020) |
| Summary |
"In Queer African Cinemas, Lindsey B. Green-Simms examines films produced by and about queer Africans in the first two decades of the twenty-first century in an environment of increasing anti-queer violence, efforts to criminalize homosexuality, and other state-sanctioned homophobia. Green-Simms argues that these films not only record the fear, anxiety, and vulnerability many queer Africans experience; they highlight how queer African cinematic practices contribute to imagining new hopes and possibilities. Examining globally circulating international art films as well as popular melodramas made for local audiences, Green-Simms emphasizes that in these films queer resistance-contrary to traditional narratives about resistance that center overt and heroic struggle-is often practiced from a position of vulnerability. By reading queer films alongside discussions about censorship and audiences, Green-Simms renders queer African cinema as a rich visual archive that documents the difficulty of queer existence as well as the potentials for queer life-building and survival"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed January 24, 2023) |
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digitized 2022. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Homosexuality in motion pictures.
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Homosexuality and motion pictures -- Africa
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Gay people in motion pictures
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Motion pictures -- Africa -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film -- History & Criticism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- LGBTQ Studies -- General.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Gays in motion pictures
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Homosexuality and motion pictures
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Homosexuality in motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Film criticism
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Film criticism.
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Critiques cinématographiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021022865 |
| ISBN |
1478022639 |
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9781478022633 |
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147809365X |
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9781478093657 |
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