| Description |
1 online resource (244 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Cinemas of the Global South: Towards a Southern Aesthetics -- Cinematic Aesthetics in General -- Thinking Visual Aesthetics from Egypt -- An Indian Aesthetics of Cinema? -- An Aesthetics from the Global South? -- Note -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Southern Aesthetics: The Egyptian Way: Shady Abdelsalam's The Day of Counting the Years (1969) -- Shady Abdelsalam: An Unfinished Greatness -- Reading of Southern Aesthetics -- Conclusion |
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Singing in Difficult Times -- Singing in the Times of WhatsApp -- Towards the Multiplicity of Southern Aesthetics? -- Notes -- References -- Filmography -- Chapter 5: Local Realism: Indian Independent Film as a Socio-political Medium -- Conceptual Framework: Local Realism and a Secular Gaze as New Indian Indie Aesthetics -- Patriarchy and Politics of The Great Indian Kitchen -- Local Aesthetics of Caste in Life of an Outcast -- Kashmir Question: Local and Secular Aesthetics in Hamid -- LGBTQ Identity, Local Realism and National Discourse: Coming Out of Evening Shadows -- Conclusion -- References |
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Chapter 6: Indian Gangsters, American Noir and Africa's Drum Magazine: The Making of a South African Gangster Fliek during Early Apartheid -- Indian Cinemas as Sites of Violence -- The Gangster as 'Rebel' -- the resistance argument -- The Hollywood Gangster Film -- Protagonist and Character Arc -- Society in Focus -- Balancing Individual and Social Interests -- The Street with No Name (1948) -- The Construction of the Gangster in Drum Magazine -- Thematisation of 'Gangsterism' as a Marketing Strategy in Drum -- Different Modalities of Representing the Gangster in Drum -- Drum's 'Gangster' Tropes |
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Gangster Media Strategies -- the Management of Reputation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Contagious Aesthetics: Bios, Politics and Cinema in Contemporary Kerala -- The Virus -- Metaphoric, Epidemic, Technological -- New Generation Malayalam Cinema (newgen) -- The Digital Turn -- Network Narrative, Aesthetic and Practice -- Network Narrative -- Network Aesthetic -- A Local Adaptation and a Hollywood "Film"- Virus and Contagion -- Aesthetics -- Sound, Space and Scale -- Realism and Representation -- Frail Masculinities and Flawed Femininities -- Patient Zero (See Figures 7.4, 7.5) |
| Summary |
This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation; and as an arena of virtuality, creativity and change. It opens up a dialogue amongst scholars and filmmakers from the Global South: India, Nigeria, Colombia, Brazil, South Africa, and Egypt |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
References -- Chapter 3: Constellations of Time: Towards a Cartography of Plundered Memories -- Introduction -- A Constellation of Memories -- Rona Sela - Undoing the Colonial Archives -- Khadijeh - Scent of Revolution -- Killing in the Name: The Anonymous Soldier -- The Uprooting: Sabri Jiryis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Singing in Saffron Times: Documentary Film and Resistance to Majoritarian Politics in India -- Documentary and the Politics of Hate -- The Invisible Games of Hate: The Boy in the Branch -- The Micropolitics of Emerging Public Spheres: Chai Darbari |
| Notes |
Technophilia |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Developing countries
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Taha, Amir
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| ISBN |
9781040003923 |
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1040003923 |
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