Space and Time in African Cinema and Cine-scapes

Kenneth W. Harrow

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Routledge
27 May 2024

Films, movies & cinema; Reference works; Media studies

Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

This book is the first of its kind to bring basic notions of contemporary physics to bear on African cine-scapes.

In this book, renowned African cinema scholar Kenneth W. Harrow presents unique new ways to think about space and time in film, with a specific focus on African and African diasporic cinema. Through a series of case studies, he explores how cinema creates and represents time and space and, more specifically, how a cinema centered in African landscapes and figures accomplishes this. He reflects on the issues and problems posed by scientists when faced with the basic questions of what space and time are and their solutions or conclusions, giving both film studies and African studies scholars access to new ways to formulate their thinking about African cine-scapes. Working beyond the limits of a framework based in a postcolonial and cultural understanding of time and space, Harrow demonstrates how a scientific understanding of time and space can open up new approaches to African cinema and cinema in general.

A unique, interdisciplinary book that encourages brand new ways to approach cinematic texts and, specifically, African cine-scapes.

By: Kenneth W. Harrow
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9781032265704
ISBN 10: 1032265701
Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Kenneth W. Harrow is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of English at Michigan State University. His work focuses on African cinema and literature, Diaspora and Postcolonial Studies. He is the author of Thresholds of Change in African Literature, Less Than One and Double: A Feminist Reading of African Women’s Writing, Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism, and Trash! A Study of African Cinema Viewed from Below. He has edited numerous collections on such topics as Islam and African literature, African cinema, and women in African literature and cinema, including, with Carmela Garritano, A Companion to African Film.

Reviews for Space and Time in African Cinema and Cine-scapes

"""Kenneth Harrow’s book innovatively places science in conversation with African films. This pairing leads to the groundbreaking possibility that multiple kinds of time exist in and around the cinematic experience. From this hypothesis, Harrow reframes our relationship with cinema and moves the field of African cinema into much-needed new territory."" Vlad Dima, Professor & Chair, Department of African Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA"