Cinemas of the Global South: Towards a Southern Aesthetics

Author:   Dilip M Menon ,  Amir Taha
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   232
Publication Date:   19 March 2024
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Author:   Dilip M Menon ,  Amir Taha
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
Weight:   0.450kg
ISBN:  

9781032727479


ISBN 10:   1032727470
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   19 March 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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1. Cinemas of the Global South: Towards A Southern Aesthetics 2. Southern Aesthetics. The Egyptian Way: Shadi Abelsalam’s The Day of Counting the Years (1969) 3. Constellations of Time: Towards A Cartography of Plundered Memories 4. Singing in Saffron Times: Documentary Film and Resistance to Majoritarian Politics in India 5. Local Realism: Indian Independent Film as a Socio-political Medium6. Indian gangsters, American noir and Africa’s Drum magazine: the making of a South African gangster fliek during early apartheid 7. Contagious Aesthetics: Bios, Politics and Cinema in Contemporary Kerala 8. Dealing with The Precarious City: Violence, Memory and Rhythms of Endurance in La sombra del caminante (Ciro Guerra 2005) & La sociedad del semáforo (Ruben Mendoza, 2010) 9. Cinematics of Southern Environmentalism

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Dilip M Menon is Professor of History and International Relations at the University of Witwatersrand, and Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa. His interests are in knowledge from the Global South, South Asian cultural and intellectual history and oceanic histories. He has edited Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global South (2022) and Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought (2023). Amir Taha gained his PhD in English Literature and Cultures from the University of Tübingen in 2017. He is an Associate Researcher at Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA), University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Taha taught Film Studies, Cultural Studies and Global South Studies at the University of Tübingen and at Wits University. He is the author of Film and Counterculture in the 2011 Egyptian Uprising (2021) and is the co-editor of the upcoming Cinemas from the Global South. Towards Southern Aesthetics (Routledge).

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