Addamms Mututa

Biographic Data

ID7501904
NAMEAddamms Mututa
GIVEN NAMESAddamms
FAMILY NAMEMututa
SIGNATUREMUTUTA A
AFFILIATIONSCity University of New York
ORCID0000-0001-7036-5361
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Cinematic Mountains and the Anthropocene

    Addamms MututaARTICLETransformation2026

    Much of South Africa’s cinema has prioritised the human as the subject matter. While this has promoted narratives on social, economic, political, cultural and other aspects of everyday human life, missing from the country’s cinematic purview are films focused on planetary well-being in the context of everyday life. This article makes a case for Qwaqwa: Place of Barriers and Bridges (2025) as exemplary of how the mountain cinema genre in post-apar…

  • Cinema poetics in South Africa’s post-apartheid animation narratives

    Open AccessAddamms Songe Mututa, Addamms MututaARTICLESemiotica2026

    How can we know whether the meaning that was in the film is the same as the one we get when we watch it? This article proposes that meaning must transgress between diegesis and non-diegesis, and between the real and the fictional through a semiotic process. The article is thus about how meaning is communicated from the film to its audiences. It uses the concept of narrative metalepsis to critique the theoretical possibilities for cinema meanings …

  • Multiphrenic Identities and Cultural Theory in Post-Apartheid Literary Adaptations

    Open AccessAddamms Songe Mututa, Addamms Mututa et al.ARTICLECurrent Writing2024

  • What's a Cellphilm? Integrating mobile phone technology into participatory visual research and activism

    Open AccessAddamms Songe Mututa, Addamms MututaARTICLENew Techno Humanities2022

    This book review essay aggregates various research ideas on cellphilms and participatory research methodology advanced through Katie MacEntee, Casey Burkholder and Joshua Schwab-Cartas’ recently edited volume in the subject. It also collocates these ideas with the wider research topography within the field of visual cultures, providing summarized synthesis of contemporary thought in the subject. The essay also seeks to provoke new research agenda…

  • Fespaco and critical discourse on African cinema

    Boukary Sawadogo, Addamms MututaARTICLEJournal of African Cinemas2022Cited by: 1References: 2

    The Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) celebrated its golden jubilee at its 26th edition in 2019. This marks a time for reflection and assessment of the future of the festival. The 50th anniversary also represents a key juncture for scholars and practitioners to rethink curatorial practice in Africa to enable film festivals to function also as a medium of production and dissemination of critical discourse on African…

  • Presence and exhibition of African film in Harlem

    Open AccessAddamms MututaARTICLEJournal of African Cinemas2020

    Throughout the twentieth-century American history, the circulation of African arts in the New York City runs parallel with African American activism. The African on-screen presence in Harlem needs to be examined in this broader context in order to better grasp the historical trajectory of its development in the neighbourhood and also the encounters and exchanges between Africans and African Americans. Today, the increased interest in African scre…

  • Battered bodies

    Open AccessAddamms MututaARTICLEJournal of African Cinemas2020

    Narratives of traumatic citizenship not only raise questions about the past, but also they give voice to contemporary stories about this past. In post-apartheid South Africa, these questions, markers of apartheid temporality, are embodied in, among other sites, the representation of battered Black bodies in cinema. This article critiques the characterization of Blacks as narrative spaces to illustrate the temporality of distress and trauma from a…