Moving Pictures, Mired Cars
The Automobile in African Francophone Cinema
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23716598 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lindsey B Green-Simms (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Publisher | University of Minnesota Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5749/minnesota/9781517901141.003.0004 |
| OpenAlex | W2766863481 |
| ISBN | 9781517901141 |
| Language | EN |
Chapter 3 turns to Francophone cinema, discussing in detail Ousmane Sembene’s Xala and Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Quartier Mozart . While media scholars like Kristin Ross have often focused on the shared qualities of film and cars—such as movement, image, standardization, mechanization, and displacement—this chapter discusses how African Francophone films reconfigure the link between the moving image and the moving vehicle by disallowing the automobile to represent a continuous, rational forward movement.
Art · Displacement (psychology) · French · Humanities · Movie theater · Psychoanalysis · Visual arts · African history and culture studies · Cinema and Media Studies · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |