Meaninglessness Time, Rhythm, and the Undead in Postcolonial Cinema |
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| Author:
| Dima, Vlad |
| Series title: | African Humanities and the Arts Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61186-438-0 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2022 |
| Publisher: | Michigan State University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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Meaninglessness: Time, Rhythm, and the Undead in Postcolonial Cinema is a study of meaning and meaninglessness through the figure of the undead, beginning with francophone Africa and extending to postcolonial France. Through the analysis of films like Mati Diop's
Atlantics and Jean-Pierre Bekolo's
Miraculous Weapons, Dima shows how the African cinematic image may produce meaning without any attachment to European time, and how that meaning is connected instead to...
More Description Meaninglessness: Time, Rhythm, and the Undead in Postcolonial Cinema is a study of meaning and meaninglessness through the figure of the undead, beginning with francophone Africa and extending to postcolonial France. Through the analysis of films like Mati Diop's Atlantics and Jean-Pierre Bekolo's Miraculous Weapons, Dima shows how the African cinematic image may produce meaning without any attachment to European time, and how that meaning is connected instead to the philosophy of negritude and to the notion of rhythm. Meaninglessness introduces the concept of the rhythm-sequence as a new way to understand the African moving image.