African Cinema and Urbanism
Seiten
2024
Anthem Press (Verlag)
978-1-83999-107-3 (ISBN)
Anthem Press (Verlag)
978-1-83999-107-3 (ISBN)
This work brings together theories and practices from the disciplines of urbanism, architecture and African cinema studies to examine, through African screen media, how African artists are bringing attention to issues of urban precarity, climate change, survival and growth, and creativity on the continent.
The changing nature of African landscapes, from rural to urbanized spaces, has been a pre-occupation of African media producers since the beginnings of the African film industry in the 1960s. The authors bring together several examples of African documentary and fiction screen media that present, evaluate and criticize urban and rural landscapes, and the rural and urban dynamic of development, in relation to contemporary issues, from biodiversity, sustainability and deforestation, to inequity, women’s rights, political instability, to climate change-related themes of water and food supply, security and sovereignty. These works, comprising multi-platform cinema, streamed moving images and especially documentaries, depict the situations and open the door to rethinking and eventually to the possibilities of proposals responding to the situations portrayed.
The changing nature of African landscapes, from rural to urbanized spaces, has been a pre-occupation of African media producers since the beginnings of the African film industry in the 1960s. The authors bring together several examples of African documentary and fiction screen media that present, evaluate and criticize urban and rural landscapes, and the rural and urban dynamic of development, in relation to contemporary issues, from biodiversity, sustainability and deforestation, to inequity, women’s rights, political instability, to climate change-related themes of water and food supply, security and sovereignty. These works, comprising multi-platform cinema, streamed moving images and especially documentaries, depict the situations and open the door to rethinking and eventually to the possibilities of proposals responding to the situations portrayed.
Marie-Paule Macdonald is an associate professor at the School of Architecture, University of Waterloo. Her publications include Jimi Hendrix Soundscapes (2016) and Rockspaces (2000). Macdonald is a registered architect, MOAQ (member of the Order of Architects of Quebec).
Introduction: figuring contemporary conditions of urban and rural landscape through cinema in African contexts; Chapter 1: Settlements, territories, landscape, village versus city; Chapter 2: Migration scenarios; Chapter 3: Urbanisation, infrastructure and landscape; Chapter 4: Hybridities; Chapter 5 Futurities; Chapter 6: Sustainabilities; Chapter 7: Elements of a Conclusion: “configurations of possibles”; Bibliographic References; Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.10.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Anthem Africology Series |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-83999-107-0 / 1839991070 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-83999-107-3 / 9781839991073 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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