Artistic epistemologies
Black cinema and the idea of Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21790598 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Addamms Songe Mututa (0000-0001-7484-4335, University of Johannesburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 119-131 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of African Cinemas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-9221 • E-ISSN: 1754-923X |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/jac_00122_2 |
| OpenAlex | W4410139133 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
What is Africa? Is it what it was, say, a century ago? What knowledge about contemporary Africa is deducible through its cinemas? These questions are the backdrop of this Special Issue of the Journal of African Cinemas , which aggregates different apertures through which Africa can be grasped through its diverse cinematic cultures. The issue connects the idea of Africa, in the sense of Africanism, with its cultural ontologies. The different debates about the idea of Africa, which the different authors advance, inform us of the new cultural possibilities for theorizing Africa
Art · Art history · Movie theater · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
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Marikana and the media
"Poverty" and the Politics of Syncopation
Africans filming Africa
Into the Twentieth Century
Where Is the Theory in Visual Anthropology
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |